Following Sunday's undersea cable incident, in which a bulk carrier damaged a fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland, Swedish prosecutors announced that the ship had been seized and is anchored outside the Swedish port of Karlskrona. Local newspaper Expressen confirmed that Swedish Coast Guard vessels surrounded the Malta-flagged Vezhen, now anchored at the port of Karlskrona. "We are directly on site with the seized ship and are taking measures as decided by the prosecutor," said Mattias Lindholm, spokesperson for the Coast Guard. Mats Ljungqvist, a...

BRUSSELS — Swedish authorities have launched a preliminary investigation into suspected sabotage and detained a vessel in the Baltic Sea after damage was reported to an undersea data cable between Latvia and Sweden. Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braze said early Monday that the cable was “significantly damaged” but that the operator was prepared, so “we have not suffered any loss of data or transmission.” “The crisis scenario worked,” she told reporters in Brussels, adding that there had been “a day-long effort to clarify which ship has been responsible.” Latvia is...

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Another undersea data cable was damaged in the Baltic Sea, highlighting the ongoing risks of sabotage to marine infrastructure. The line between Latvia and Sweden was cut in Swedish waters, and Swedish authorities seized a Maltese-flagged vessel, DW reported. NATO is stepping up its protection of undersea links, after a number of incidents in recent years involving Russia- and China-linked ships. Moscow in particular is ramping up retaliation for what it views as Western aggression in Ukraine: A former British spy chief told a parliamentary committee that Moscow is deploying...

Swedish prosecutors have impounded a ship suspected of intentionally damaging a Baltic Sea communications cable running between Latvia and Sweden, the Swedish Prosecution Authority announced on Sunday. The agency said that a preliminary investigation had been opened into “suspected serious sabotage” but that due to the ongoing nature of the investigation it was unable to disclose the name of the ship in question or any further details about the case. The Latvian Navy had previously identified a vessel, the Michalis San, as suspicious after it was sighted near the Latvian-owned...

On Christmas morning, Estonia’s power grid operators got an unwanted surprise: The Estlink 2 power cable linking them to Finland had failed. The outage left only the Estlink 1 cable in operation, reducing the electricity flow to Estonia by almost two-thirds. The rupture had little impact on services due to reserve capacities. However, it sparked fears energy prices would rise while the cable remains offline – potentially for months. The following day, Finnish officials boarded and detained the Eagle S, a Cook Islands-flagged tanker they said was carrying oil from...

The third severing of an undersea cable in just three months occurred on Sunday, this time between Latvia and Sweden in the Baltic Sea. The incident has prompted a criminal investigation and heightened concerns of potential sabotage by Russia or China. Latvia's State Radio and Television Center, a data transmission provider, released this statement about the damaged cable connecting Ventspils in Latvia and Sweden's Gotland island: In the early morning of January 26, the submarine fiber optic cable of the Latvian State Radio and Television Centre (hereinafter – LVRTC) in...

This audio is created with AI assistance An underwater fiber-optic cable belonging to the Latvian State Radio and Television Broadcasting Center (LVRTC) was significantly damaged on Jan. 26, reportedly due to external impact, according to LVRTC representative Vineta Sprugaine. The cable connected the Latvian town of Ventspils to Sweden's Gotland island and was located within Sweden's exclusive economic zone, the statement said.

Incident comes after British defence secretary said any Russian ships found to be damaging cables in UK waters face being seized A Swedish navy spokesperson said it was too early to say what caused the damage or if it was intentional. "We don't know, it's too early in the investigation. We don't even know if this is an accident or a fault in the cable," the spokesperson said. The military alliance said last week it would deploy frigates, patrol aircraft and naval drones in the Baltic Sea to help protect...