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The underwater data cable between Sweden and Latvia was destroyed earlier on Sunday. In recent months, at least the fourth episode of the potentially damaged in the Baltic Sea has aroused NATO’s attention to the vulnerability of key infrastructure for key infrastructure Essence
Evikasiliņa, the Prime Minister of Latvia, said the cable between the cable between the wicker of the coastal town of Ratvia and the island of Gotorande, Sweden is important, so it may be caused by external forces. Essence
Criminal investigation has begun. The previous incident was related to Russia and Chinese ships.
The Latvia authorities sent a patrol boat to check a ship near the fiber cable near the National Radio and Television Center of the Baltic Sea and were monitoring two other nearby ships.
Latvia Television reported that the Latvia Navy said the ship was the bulk carrier of Malta’s logo on Malta. On the way from Algeria to Russia, he did not find signs of suspicious activities on the ship.
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristerson said that the “at least one” data cable has been damaged, and he keeps in touch with Siliņa and cooperates closely with NATO.
Ursula Von der Leyen, chairman of the European Commission, expressed “completely united” to the Baltic countries and added that “the toughness and security of our key infrastructure are the top priority of the EU.”
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NATO announced last week that it will deploy drones, submarines, ships and planes in the Baltic Sea to help detect and prevent damage to key infrastructure. After three sets of cables in recent months, it is called the mission of the Baltic sentinel. This is in the mission of Polish sentinel.
Finnish authorities caught the control-aging of ships belonging to Russian shadow oil wheel shadow fleet last month, and poor maintenance of ships registered in remote judicial jurisdictions such as the Cook Islands and used to avoid international sanctions because they started to seriously treat the serious ones. Destroy criminal investigation incident.
NATO AllIES claimed that Finland was taking the role model on the ship. There were two previous possible damage, and suspicious ships left the Baltic Sea.
The first occurred at the end of 2023. At that time, a Chinese container ship Newnew Polar Bear used an anchoring trains between Finland and Estonia, but did not stop.
The second involved in the Chinese scattered loader Yi Peng 3, the carrier was cut off on the Baltic two data cables in November.
It stopped in the international waters between Denmark and Sweden for a month, and Chinese investigators boarded it. However, the Swedish government has criticized Beijing to not allow Sweden’s leading investigators to board or check ships.
The latest incident was because the three countries of the Baltic Sea were ready to cancel its power system with the former Soviet Union network in early February, and integrated itself into the European continental grid, and worried that it would further cause potential damage before that.
Estarians, Latvia and Lithuania have joined the European Union and NATO since the Soviet Union forced annexation, and it was eventually incorporated into the West to the European Electric Power System.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister K交Stutisbudrys said that the navigation rules of the Baltic Sea need to be reviewed, and it is added that there are many incidents that are almost possible to occur.
The maintenance of data cables is often much less time than natural gas or power connections, and Latvia Radio and Television Center said it has found a substitute for communication.
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