October 2023 there was similar incident where Chinese cargo ship cut Balticonnector cable and EE-S1 cable. Chip named 'Newnew Polar Bear' under Chinese flag and Chinese company Hainan Xin Xin Yang Shipping Co, Ltd. (aka Torgmoll) with CEO named Yelena V. Maksimova, drags anchor in the seabed cutting cables. Chinese investigation claims storm was the reason, but there was no storm, just normal windy autumn weather. The ship just lowered one anchor and dragged it with engines running long time across the seabed until the anchor broke.

These things happen sometimes, ship anchors sometimes damage cables, but not this often and without serious problems in the ship. Russians are attempting plausible deniability.

The Danish defense forces now confirms their presence but they are not providing any other information right now: https://x.com/forsvaretdk/status/1859195509866381402

(This is also a rare English-language tweet from an account that usually only tweets in Danish)

And 4 days ago a Russian spy ship was escorted out of Irish waters:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/16/russian-spy-sh...

So definitely seems like a coordinated attempt to destabilise Europe ahead of anticipated peace talks early next year.

Much more information here: https://gcaptain.com/details-of-baltic-sea-cable-incident-re...

Title could be a lot more descriptive. Your average reader might scroll on by because that title makes no sense without context.