Finland and Sweden didn’t just join NATO — they completed a strategic encirclement. Alongside Poland, Denmark, Germany, and the Baltic states, NATO now controls nearly every coastline of the Baltic ...

On paper, nato’s presence in the Baltic has never been stronger. Of the sea’s nine littoral states, all but Russia belong to the alliance. But although nato has a clear edge in the Baltic when it ...

A subsea data cable between Latvia and Sweden was damaged early Sunday, sparking a criminal investigation, a third such incident in the Baltic Sea in the past three months. The damage to the link ...

Swedish Navy chief of operations Marko Petkovic has said that they have been encountering Russian submarines in the Baltic Sea on an "almost weekly" basis. Source: The Guardian, as reported by ...

Swedish authorities boarded a sanctioned Russian ship previously used for transporting weapons just off the country’s west coast in the latest incident between Nato countries and Moscow’s vessels in ...

Poland said on Wednesday it had chosen Sweden's Saab to supply it with three submarines, in a multi-billion-dollar deal that ...

(CNN) — Sweden has sent a formal request to China to cooperate with an investigation into suspected sabotage over the sudden disruption of two submarine internet cables in the Baltic Sea earlier this ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden will contribute up to three warships to a NATO effort to increase the alliance's presence in the Baltic Sea as it tries to guard against sabotage of underwater infrastructure, ...

(Bloomberg) -- Sweden detained a vessel suspected of damaging a subsea data cable connecting it with Latvia, the third such incident in the Baltic Sea in the past three months. The Security Service ...

Sweden has responded to a changing security situation in Europe by increasing its military spending, reintroducing conscription and hosting large-scale exercises. It has also stationed troops back on ...

Bad weather, bad equipment and poor seamanship ... the recipe for many at sea accidents ... was the culprit in a recent subsea cable break; not sabotage with Russia and China fingerprints. These are ...

Sweden's membership tightens NATO grip over the Baltic Sea -- but Russia still remains a threat - Copyright AFP FRED TANNEAU Sweden's membership tightens NATO grip ...