The bloc announced new steps to prevent threats to undersea lines after Sweden discovered damage to one east of Gotland island.

Russia is carefully monitoring Sweden's military activities within NATO and is taking appropriate measures, Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, commenting on the statement by the head of Swedish military intelligence Thomas Nilsson about the need to prepare the country's armed forces for a potential conflict with Russia.

Today, the folly of that approach has been revealed—and Sweden, NATO’s newest member, appears to be quickly changing course.

Swedish police said on Friday they were investigating a suspected case of sabotage of an undersea telecoms cable in the Baltic Sea, and the country’s coast guard deployed a vessel to the area where multiple seabed cables have been damaged in recent months.

The shift in U.S. support for Ukraine in its war with Russia, which enters its fourth year on Monday, has raised alarms in Kyiv and in capitals across Europe. A new documentary finds that those anxieties are especially high in some of Russia’s neighbors on the Baltic Sea.

Finland became the first of the NATO newcomer countries to declare its concerns about the possible demand of US President Donald Trump to exclude it and Sweden from the North Atlantic Alliance in order to improve Washington's relations with Moscow.

The decision comes after the May re-election of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and days before Sweden and Turkey are set to resume NATO membership talks. The 35-year-old individual in ...

European officials knew the president’s win would threaten the fundamental precepts of the post-World War II order. But the speed at which it is unraveling has created a crisis of enormous proportions.

STOCKHOLM - Sweden is investigating a possible breach of an undersea cable off the country’s south-western coast in the Baltic Sea, the coast guard said on Feb 21, in an area where multiple seabed cables have been damaged in recent months.

Britain and Sweden have become the first European nations to say they could send troops to help secure Ukraine after an end to the war there.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is inviting more than a dozen European leaders to a top meeting on Ukraine this Sunday in London, reports news agency AFP.Sweden

"We take all reports of possible damage to infrastructure in the Baltic Sea very seriously," Sweden's prime minister said.