There has been a sharp rise in damage to undersea cables in the Baltic, with at least 11 incidents reported since October 2023.

The Baltic’s growing importance is not limited to gas. Owing to its strategic location, many refer to the sea as the 'NATO lake'.

Latvian authorities have searched a ship suspected of damaging an undersea optic cable in the Baltic, the sixth outage or damage to an underwater cable in the region in as many days, as western allies ...

New study by TSOs surrounding the sea basin also identifies scope for 13GW of new cross-border interconnectors ...

Several incidents of damage to telecom and electricity cables and gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea over the past 18 months have raised concerns about the security of underwater infrastructure and the ...

For decades the Baltic Sea has served as a delicate buffer zone between a growing number of NATO members and Russia, more recently becoming a new front line for symmetric and asymmetric threats ...

NATO forces have begun conducting a two-week exercise on the Baltic Sea, with the first ships departing from the north-eastern German port of Rostock on Thursday morning. Among the vessels setting off ...

TALLINN - Sabotage of infrastructure cables in the Baltic Sea cannot be prevented at present due to a lack of continuous ...

Welcome to Wider Europe, RFE/RL's newsletter focusing on the key issues concerning the European Union, NATO, and other institutions and their relationships with the Western Balkans and Europe's ...

The Baltic countries comprise three nations in northeastern Europe: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. They are called "Baltic" because they all lie along the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea. This sea ...

Eight countries surrounding the Baltic Sea have pledged to work together in investing and completing interconnectors in the region and protecting undersea cables as part of the European Union’s ...