A Communist Chinese Vessel, Suspected of Cutting Two Cables in the Baltic Sea, Is Detained by Danish Warship

Baltic internet cables for four NATO nations were cut as America authorized Ukrainian missile strikes on Russia.

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The size of garden hoses, hundreds of fiber optic cables crisscross ocean floors, carrying trillions of dollars of business. Around 99 percent of the world's data run through undersea cables. David Oller/Europa Press via Getty Images

A Danish Navy warship detained today the Chinese bulk carrier, the Yi Peng 3, that is suspected of cutting two undersea cables in the Baltic.

Open source maritime news channel ‘auonsson’ posted on X that a Danish Flying Fish class patrol ship detained the ship as it was trying to flee the Baltic through the Danish straits. The Internet cables were severed Sunday and Monday, just as reports emerged of President Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to use American-made missiles to hit military targets up to 200 miles inside Russia.

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