Eight NATO member countries with access to the Baltic Sea have announced an action plan in response to incidents involving damaged infrastructure, pledging to "effectively respond" to attacks on undersea infrastructure,

The move marks yet another step in the systematic military encircling of Russia by the US-led military alliance, which continues to back the far-right Ukrainian regime in a war aimed at inflicting a strategic defeat on Moscow and subjugating its territory to semi-colonial status.

RIGA - NATO needs to strengthen its presence in the Baltic Sea and tackle Russia's "shadow fleet", President Edgars Rinkevics said Tuesday while participating in the Baltic Sea NATO allies summit in Helsinki, Finland.

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 RBS 15 Mark 3, capable of hitting Russian ships in St Petersburg and Kaliningrad, writes defence analyst David Axe in an article for The Telegraph.

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.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb will host a summit in Helsinki of the NATO countries that border the Baltic Sea together with Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal next Tuesday. The summit, which will take place at the Presidential Palace,

The operation, dubbed “Baltic Sentry,” will dispatch national contributions as well as joint assets to the strategically located body of water.