Sweden asks China to co-operate with severed cable investigation

Two cables in the Baltic Sea linking Sweden to Lithuania, and Finland to Germany, were damaged.

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The cables - one linking Sweden to Lithuania and the other between Finland and Germany - were damaged in Swedish territorial waters in the Baltic Sea on 17 and 18 November.

A Chinese ship, the Yi Peng Three, is believed to have been in the area at the time and has since been anchored in international waters off Denmark.

Beijing has denied any involvement in sabotage and on Friday said it was willing to work with Sweden and other countries to find out what happened.

The Yi Peng Three left the Russian port of Ust-Luga, west of St Petersburg, on 15 November.

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