1 day ago · The recent incident highlights rising tensions in the Baltic Sea since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly three years ago. Following the cable damage in December, the European Union ...

1 day ago · The gas receiving station of the Nord Stream 1 Baltic Sea pipeline and the transfer station of the OPAL gas pipeline in Lubmin, Germany, seen in July 2022. Stefan Sauer/picture alliance/dpa/Getty ...

2 days ago · Crew members aboard a French Navy Atlantique 2 surveillance plane watch one of the classified onboard monitors showing data and images from the aircraft’s radars, cameras and other sensors as it patrols Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, over the Baltic Sea as part of the NATO military alliance’s “Baltic Sentry” mission to protect undersea cables and pipelines from sabotage.

The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain. [3] The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 10°E to 30°E longitude.

3 days ago · The incident follows other suspected sabotage attempts on cables under the Baltic Sea, which has recently become a theater of potential hybrid warfare between NATO and Russia.

Jan 13, 2025 · LONDON -- A spate of alleged sabotage operations against undersea cables in the Baltic Sea has raised the prospect of a dangerous 2025 in NATO's northern theater, with allied leaders vowing closer surveillance of and tougher action against Russian- and Chinese-linked and other ships accused of nefarious efforts there.

May 22, 2024 · The draft Russian defence ministry decree suggested moving the sea borders around Russian islands in the Gulf of Finland and around the exclave of Kaliningrad.

May 23, 2024 · Russia unveiled a bill on Tuesday that would redefine its maritime borders in the Baltic Sea, causing an outcry among Baltic and other northern European countries and fueling geopolitical...

May 22, 2024 · COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Leaders around the Baltic Sea reacted warily Wednesday to reports that Russia could revise the borders of its territorial waters in the region, with Lithuania’s foreign minister calling it an “obvious escalation” that must be met with an “appropriately firm response.”

Leaders around the Baltic Sea reacted warily Wednesday to reports that Russia could revise the borders of its territorial waters in the region, with Lithuania’s foreign minister calling it an...