Baltic Sea

The National Security Commission chaired by Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas on Wednesday met to discuss response to incidents in the Baltic Sea.

There is no proof that Russian or Chinese vessels deliberately damaged subsea communication and power cables in the Baltic Sea in recent months, says Director of Lithuania’s State Security Department (VSD) Darius Jauniškis.

Repair work on the damaged sea cable will start as soon as the vessel needed for the work is available, representatives of the Latvian State Radio and Television Centre (LVRTC) informed LETA.

On Sunday, yet another subsea cable was damaged in the Baltic Sea and head of Lithuania’s State Security Department (VSD) says the incidents may be linked to the upcoming synchronisation of the electricity system of the Baltic States with Western Europe.

After a subsea fibre optic cable connecting Sweden and Latvia was cut in the Baltic Sea last Sunday, one in a series of similar incidents recently, President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda stated that the culprits must compensate for the damage.

A subsea optical cable of the Latvian State Radio and Television Centre (LVRTC) was damaged in the Baltic Sea on Sunday. Swedish authorities have stopped the ship Vezhen, registered in Malta, on suspicion that it might have damaged the cable. Lithuanian ministers of foreign affairs and defence have ...

Early on 26 January, the submarine optical fibre cable in the Baltic Sea belonging to SJSC Latvia State Radio and Television Centre (LVRTC) was damaged. LVRTC’s Data Transmission Monitoring System detected disruptions in data transmission services on the Ventspils–Gotland (Fårösund) segment. LVRTC c...

The Ministry of Energy has proposed to suspend the competition for the construction of the second 700 MW offshore windfarm in the Baltic Sea. The ministry suggests reviewing the competition conditions.

On 15 January, Mine Countermeasures and Patrol vessels of the Naval Flotilla were activated as part of NATO’s Baltic Sentry Action Plan and put to the Baltic Sea. The NATO operation was launched on 25 December 2024 in response to the damage caused to the undersea cables connecting Estonia and Finlan...

Minister of Energy Žygimantas Vaičiūnas does not rule out that incidents with subsea infrastructure in the Baltic Sea may be linked to the upcoming synchronisation of the Baltic States’ energy grid with Western Europe.

NATO will start guarding critical facilities in the Baltic Sea with ten ships from the end of the week, Finnish public broadcaster Yle reported.

Lithuania has sufficient resources to counter hybrid and kinetic attacks by hostile states in its territorial waters, says the chair of the Seimas security committee.

As subsea cables continue to be cut in the Baltic Sea, Lithuania has stepped up the monitoring of the NordBalt power interconnection linking Lithuania and Sweden. Yet Minister of Energy Žygimantas Vaičiūnas notes that limitations of international law may cause challenges for countries of the region ...

The movement of Russian "shadow fleet" ships in the Baltic Sea must be stopped, Latvian Prime Minister Evika Silina (New Unity) said in an interview with the British broadcaster BBC on Sunday.

President Gitanas Nausėda says a disrupted undersea power cable connecting Finland and Estonia, the latest incident in a series of similar ones, calls for special attention from the NATO Alliance in order to protect the infrastructure at the Baltic Sea.

NATO will "enhance its military presence in the Baltic Sea" after the suspected sabotage of an undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia this week, the Western military alliance’s chief said Friday.

Telecommunications company Telia has announced that internet communications between Lithuania and Sweden through the cable in the Baltic Sea was successfully restored on Thursday. The cable was damaged last week. It is thought that a Chinese ship might have dragged its anchor through the bottom of t...

Chinese commercial vessel Yi Peng 3 is suspected of deliberately dragging its anchor on the Baltic seabed for some 160 kilometres, damaging two undersea cables, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The object discovered during a seabed survey in the area designated for the wind farm in the Baltic Sea is actually a shipwreck. This has been finally confirmed by an additional survey. The object was detected on the seabed of the Baltic Sea during the seabed survey conducted by an international gre...

Acting Minister of National Defence Laurynas Kasčiūnas told journalists Friday that Lithuania together with NATO should plan a response with "civilian measures" if it transpires that telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea were deliberately damaged by a hostile country.