FAFO time. Ready to board the sinful, cable cutting ye ping 3.
Distance is 150 meters; the positions are dynamic.
Maneuvers continue, 2 or possibly 3 RIBs in water. #Swedish Coast Guard KBV 001 is moving (stationary for days before.) German #deutschland Bad Dueben on station as well.
#Danish frigate HDMS Hvidbjørnen holds a course for Yi Peng 3 with a RIB on her bow. Patrol boat P525 as well, but from the west.
Service boat Styrbjørn is also en route, likely with journalists as it was last time.
#Kattegatt Last hour of naval activity close by Yi Peng 3. AIS-caveats apply, tracks are not completely exact and zoom level affects them. Purple arch = 12 mile sea border.
Weather in area for all the action is ok. 14 knots westerly winds, calm seas, above freezing (7°C) and overcast.
The German Navy now also seems to be there with its tenders Danube and Moselle.
Data: marinetraffic.com
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#Kattegatt #Danish units have spread out, German properly armed Coast Guard Bad Duben is closing in, slowly. So is Styrbjørn, likely with Danish journalists on board.
Info on The Kattegat (Danish: [ˈkʰætəkæt]; Swedish: Kattegatt [ˈkâtːɛˌɡat]) is a 30,000 km2 (12,000 sq mi) sea area bounded by the Jutlandic peninsula in the west, the Danish straits islands of Denmark and the Baltic Sea to the south and the provinces of Bohuslän, Västergötland, Halland and Scania in Sweden in the east. The Baltic Sea drains into the Kattegat through the Danish straits.
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Styrbjørn, MMSI 219003826 a former pilot boat, now a for hire work boat, approved for passengers. Last seen here used by journalists.
Brining a pilot onboard, possibly to bring ye peng into port.
"If you sail 400km through Baltic Sea with anchor lowered to rip up cables, you are not leaving unharmed. Enough is enough. Proportional answers are called for. The damage inflicted on us must be repaid. There won’t be any peace by accepting such things." Denmark Def. comm chair
Putin's Sabotage War -FAFO Time
More satellite interest in todays Kattegat naval situation.
China YI PENG 3 (Russian Ship Pilot) spotted TODAY being guarded by #German BAD DUBEN BP83 and #Denmark HDMS ROTA P525 at
56.412,11.659
2 smaller boats can also be seen on satellite image just North of Yi Peng.
sentinelshare.page.link/Veje
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Update on Russian and chi warfare on European nations. Yi peng 3 pilot is Russian and the ship departed Russian port just before it cut the undersea cables.
Yi Peng 3 dropped its anchor into the Baltic Sea. Went dark on AIS and dragged it along the bottom, destroyed comms cables. Hull and anchor bear traces of the deed.
Investigators suspect pre-mediation and that RU intelligence directed it.
Bojan Pancevski in a remarkable WSJ-piece.
UPDATE: Russia Now Primary Suspect in 'Yi Peng 3' Baltic Sea Cable Cutting Crime
Putin's Act of Sabotage
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https://gcaptain.com/russia-now-primary-suspect-in-yi-peng-3-baltic-sea-cable-incident/
@skykiss sink it