Swedish PM says Baltic sea now ‘high risk’ after suspected cable sabotage
The Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, has said the Baltic sea is now a “high risk” zone as he met Nordic and Baltic leaders days after a suspected sabotage attack on undersea cables.
The Swedish prime minister declined to speculate on who may have been responsible for the severing of two fibre optic telecoms cables in the Baltic last week. A Chinese ship – the Yi Peng 3 – that sailed over the cables about the time they were severed has remained anchored in the Kattegat strait between Sweden and Denmark since 19 November.
Speaking from the summit, in Harpsund, the Swedish prime minister’s country retreat, Kristersson told the Guardian: “We are aware that there is a high risk for different types of activities on the Baltic sea that are dangerous.”
He added: “Now we are careful about not accusing anybody right now of anything. We don’t know that this is sabotage. But we are investigating the matter very carefully.”
