Undersea cables cut in the Baltic Sea in the Yi Peng 3 incident
Reportedon one origin only: 1 distinct origin, 1 tied to no party.
The dataset records cuts to undersea cables between Finland and Germany and between Sweden and Lithuania, linked to the Chinese ship Yi Peng 3, and cites the Wall Street Journal as reporting it acted under Russian pressure. It codes the incident as sabotage, apparent goal degrade energy supply / communications infrastructure, target energy / communications infrastructure, location Baltic Sea; the dataset dates it only to November 2024, so the date shown is the first of the month. The Leiden dataset includes incidents linked to Russia by officials, incidents fitting a pattern of officially suspected attacks, or incidents backed by journalistic evidence, and its authors call the data speculative and subject to change.
- When
- 1 November 2024
- Where
- Baltic Sea, No single country
- What
- cable damage
- Acting party
- Government of Russia
- Attribution
- Attributed by one source. Listed as a Russian operation in the Leiden University Russian Operations Against Europe dataset; the dataset itself is the only source naming Russia that this draft cites.
- In the record
- Published 2026-10-27 21:03 UTC · revision 1 · leiden
Sources
History
| When | Field | From | To | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 21:03 UTC | status | null | reported | P1 leiden: researched from cited sources and graded by the one rule |
Cite or reuse
The War Record, "Undersea cables cut in the Baltic Sea in the Yi Peng 3 incident", ev-20261027-k0m3, revision 1, https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261027-k0m3/