RIGA - Sweden on Sunday said it had seized a ship suspected of having damaged a fibre-optic cable under the Baltic Sea linking the country to Latvia, which sent a warship to investigate the latest ...

Within three weeks, the alliance had put a coordinated group of warships to sea specifically to deter such suspected attacks. Announcing the new surveillance and deterrence mission, dubbed Baltic ...

There have been previous incidents reported of ruptures of data cables running on the Baltic Sea bed, allegedly linked to Russia’s shadow fleet — hundreds of ageing tankers of uncertain ...

Swedish prosecutors announced Sunday night that they have opened a preliminary investigation into suspected aggravated “sabotage” and ordered the detention of a vessel in the Baltic Sea ...

Germany has deployed an underwater stealth drone to patrol the Baltic Sea in an attempt to confront Chinese and Russian saboteurs. First reported by The Telegraph, the Blue Whale drone was produced by ...

Moscow has denied sabotage allegations. Vessels from China or Russia were previously spotted roaming near cables in the Baltic Sea, off Norway and around Taiwan, before damage was inflicted ...

Submarine cables are laid on the seabed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea using special cable layer ships. Representational image: ...

The Russian Navy is facing increasing challenges in the Baltic Sea as NATO and its new members try to block Russian ships. Sweden, which joined NATO in 2024, has deployed a new anti-ship missile, the ...

This week NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte announced that the military alliance would launch a new exercise in the Baltic Sea in response to the latest cable cutting incidents in December.

NATO and its eight Baltic Sea allies are stepping up their deterrence efforts in the wake of a series of incidents that have seen successive ruptures of key undersea conduits. On Tuesday ...

4, 2024 [AP Photo/Virginia Mayo] NATO announced Tuesday a major strengthening of its military presence in the Baltic Sea, seizing as a pretext recent damage to undersea cables allegedly caused by ...

The Baltic Sea NATO allies joint statement also condemned Russia. “Russia´s use of the so-called shadow fleet poses a particular threat to the maritime and environmental security in the Baltic ...