⚡️After an undersea fiber-optic able between Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland was heavily damaged today, Sweden’s national prosecutor’s office has said that “a vessel suspected of having committed the sabotage has been seized.” The vessel, the Malta -flagged bulk carrier VEZHEN, is now anchored off the coast of southeastern Sweden under the close watch of Swedish patrol vessels. Additionally, the Russian LNG carrier Pskov has been closely watched as it transits the Gulf of Finland by NATO warships.

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https://www-geo.eng.cam.ac.uk/system/files/documents/2017MooreE.pdf

This points to 19 occurrences of undersea cable damages caused by an anchor drag in 3 years in English channel. By the way, NATO increased patrols to monitor it in Basics...job well done