Through Captain Arunas’ binoculars, visibility is close to zero: "One kilometer, no more." The thick fog hanging over the Baltic Sea complicates the patrol for the 50 sailors aboard the Jotvingis. Their mission aboard the Lithuanian Navy command vessel: preventing hybrid threats as part of NATO's Baltic Sentinel operation.

Russia is "the main actor" in hybrid attacks on the alliance, said a senior NATO official following a spate of incidents.

An undersea data cable between Latvia and Sweden was damaged early on January 26, the latest in a series of similar incidents in the Baltic Sea in which critical seabed energy and communications lines are believed to have been severed by ships traveling to or from Russian ports.

Multiple undersea cables and pipelines in the Baltic Sea have been damaged in recent months, raising suspicions of sabotage.

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Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the news can’t be a coincidence and added that too often in the Baltic Sea, “GPS signals are repeatedly disrupted, critical infrastructure ...

Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the news can’t be a coincidence and added that too often in the Baltic Sea, “GPS signals are repeatedly disrupted, critical infrastructure is spied on with drones.” She said the EU and NATO have ...

Against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine the Baltic Sea has been the scene of a string of incidents involving damage to key energy and communications

The Swedish coastguard has boarded a tanker after launching a sabotage investigation into damage to another telecommunication cable in the Baltic Sea. Footage from Swedish broadcaster SVT published on Monday showed Swedish personnel boarding a Maltese-flagged vessel during the night.

Many Western leaders are decrying Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's re-election victory Sunday, calling it a sham along with the country's opposition.

Swedish authorities seized the Vezhen, sailing under the flag of Malta and registered with a Bulgarian shipping company, on Sunday over suspected sabotage of an underwater cable. View on euronews

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys has called for a review of the current regulations for shipping, following the most recent incident of damage to an undersea cable. "Navigation rules in the Baltic Sea need to be reviewed,