The flow of electricity between the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and Russia has been officially severed after officials switched off the Soviet-era grid’s transmission lines and ...

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Nearly 3 1/2 decades after leaving the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and ...

Kaliningrad Oblast is the westernmost point of the Russian Federation. It is a semi-enclave on the Baltic Sea beside Poland and Lituania. The territory was formerly the northern part of East ...

"It is suspected that the ship has been involved in serious damage to a fibre cable in the Baltic Sea between Latvia and Sweden," the police said in a statement. “The Norwegian-owned and flagged ...

NATO’s Operation Baltic Sentry is set to enhance the security of critical undersea infrastructure in the Baltic Sea, an increasingly contested region vital for the stability of global energy, ...

The Baltic Sea region is on high alert after a string of power cable, telecom link and gas pipeline outages since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, and the NATO military alliance recently boosted ...

Norwegian police said on Friday they had seized a Norwegian-owned ship at Latvia’s request over its suspected involvement in damage done to a Baltic Sea cable. The vessel’s owner has rejected any ...

Damage to an underwater fibre optic cable in the Baltic Sea, running from Ventspils in Latvia, to the Swedish island of Gotland, was detected last Sunday. Image: Pic: Reuters "It is suspected that ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Norwegian-owned ship Silver Dania, suspected of cable sabotage in the Baltic Sea, has been brought into ...

Police said there's suspicion that the ship, which was sailing between the Russian ports of St. Petersburg and Murmansk when it was detained, had been involved earlier in serious cable damage that was ...

had been involved earlier in serious cable damage that was discovered last weekend in the Baltic Sea. The authorities didn’t elaborate, but said they were searching the ship and conducting ...