A fascinating figure in this story is Alik Huchbarov, who previously spied for the FSB in Estonia.

Now working for the GRU, he relayed orders from Russian military intelligence to Hantsom.

Despite being a convicted spy, Huchbarov holds an Estonian passport and continued visiting EU freely!

YI PENG 3 Submarine cable incident: Timeline of events with animations

= Story of YI PENG 3 =

One day She was casually sailing shoutwards on baltics..

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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.

More evidence today about Op CATERVA the Top Secret investigation into the Salisbury poisoning suspects. Lots of honourable mentions today for Bellincat’s OSINT work exposing the real identities of GRU men 'Petrov' & 'Boshirov'. But we also heard about UK govt investigations 1/

Russian spies—likely Russia's GRU intelligence agency—used a new trick to hack a victim in Washington, DC: They remotely infected another network in a building across the street, hijacked a laptop there, then breached the target organization via its Wifi. www.wired.com/story/russia...

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A Finnish captain has made a video about Yi Peng 3’s infamous journey across Baltic Sea.

I have not watched it yet, but I bet a lot of new followers wants to. As do I.

We can also ascertain a very likely position for the southern cable break, the one on C-Lion 1 from todays work by SE Navy subsea work vessel Belos. 55.8692, 17.0041

They are done and are moving to the next incident spot.