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Sweden formally asks China to cooperate with investigations into undersea cables damage

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Sweden 'formally requests' China to probe Yi Peng Three, the ship accused of damaging cables – Firstpost

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Sweden has made a ‘formal request’ to China to bring Yi Peng Three back to Swedish waters so that the authorities could investigate whether the vessel severed the two cables in the Baltic Sea Amid the brewing tensions in the Baltic region, Sweden has formally asked China to cooperate with an investigation into the damage of two cables in the …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Sweden asks China to cooperate in Baltic Sea cable investigation

CNN

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 month, after tracking data linked a Chinese ship to the incidents. “Sweden has sent a formal request to China to cooperate with Swedish authorities in order to …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Sweden asks for China’s cooperation over Baltic Sea cables cut while a Chinese ship was nearby

Associated Press

HARPSUND, Sweden — Sweden has formally asked China to cooperate in explaining the recent rupture of two data cables on the Baltic Sea bed in an area where a China-flagged vessel had been sighted, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Thursday. “As I had said before, Sweden has expressed our desire for the ship to move to Swedish waters and we …

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4 weeks ago

Europe can’t make Ukraine enough weapons—So it’s paying Kyiv to do it

Live Mint

KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine’s European allies, struggling to produce enough weapons for Kyiv’s war effort, are pioneering a new method: Giving Ukrainians money to do it themselves. In the new approach, Europeans are financing Ukrainian government contracts with cash-strapped Ukrainian arms makers to produce equipment for the country’s armed forces, including long-range missiles and drones that can strike Russian territory. “Last year, …

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1 month ago

From Poland’s ‘iron dome’ to boots on the ground: How Europe is preparing for the Third World War

The Independent

More than 1,500km from London, frenetic activity is underway in the countryside of Poland, Finland, and the Baltic States: bulldozers and diggers are constructing field defences. Poland is spending at least €2.5bn on its border defence system, including building a sky shield system akin to Israel’s “Iron Dome” to protect its eastern border from a growing threat from Russia. While …

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1 month ago

Finnish authorities open probe into ruptured undersea cable between Finland and Germany

Associated Press

HELSINKI, Finland — Finnish authorities said Wednesday they have opened an investigation into the rupture of a data cable under the Baltic Sea, adding to a Swedish probe into the possible sabotage of that link and another cable. The C-Lion1 cable, which runs between Finland and Germany was damaged on Monday, the day after similar damage to a cable that …

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Baltic Sea internet cables cut: European officials cry sabotage

CNN

CNN — European officials are looking toward Russia after two submarine internet cables in the Baltic Sea were suddenly disrupted in an apparent sabotage operation, just weeks after the United States warned that Moscow was likely to target critical undersea infrastructure. His comments came after the foreign ministers of Finland and Germany said in a joint statement on Monday evening …

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1 month ago

Germany says ‘sabotage’ presumed in damaged Baltic Sea telecom cables

Al Jazeera

European nations say Russia is increasingly deploying ‘hybrid activities’ against NATO and the EU but haven’t blamed Moscow yet for recent incidents. Germany says it assumes that damage caused to two telecommunication cables in the Baltic Sea is an act of sabotage as European nations condemn the alleged Russian attacks on their “security architecture”. While Dutch Defence Minister Ruben Brekelmans …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Offshore wind farms blocked over national security fears

The Telegraph

Sweden has blocked more than a dozen offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea over fears they could make the country more vulnerable to attacks from Russia. Wind farms obstructing signals would leave less time for counteracting ballistic and cruise missiles, Mr Jonson said, and leave Swedes with less time to seek shelter in the event of a threat. Mr …

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6 months ago

Thousands of NATO troops join drills in the strategically sensitive Baltic Sea region

Associated Press

WARSAW, Poland — Some 9,000 troops from 20 NATO countries have been participating this month in military exercises in the Baltic Sea region, which has become strategically sensitive following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The exercises by navy, air force and ground troops are being held on the Baltic Sea, as well as in Sweden and its strategic island of Gotland, …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

While many in the EU worry about far-right gains at the ballot box – those close to Russia crave security

The Independent

Between now and Sunday evening, several hundred million people will vote in elections for the next EU parliament, in what is billed as the second-largest exercise in representative democracy in the world after elections in India. While the war in Ukraine has brought practical changes for all the countries on the EU’s northeastern flank – starting with the arrival of …

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7 months, 4 weeks ago

A Chinese ship remains the focus of the investigation into Baltic Sea gas pipeline damaged last year

Associated Press

HELSINKI — A Chinese container ship remains the focus of an investigation into what caused the damage last year to a Baltic Sea gas pipeline between NATO members Finland and Estonia, Finnish authorities said Thursday. The National Bureau of Investigation, a branch of the Finnish police, said Thursday that it still believes that an anchor of the Hong Kong-flagged cargo …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Focus on Russia as Sweden completes NATO presence along the Baltic shore

The Hindu

Sweden's accession to NATO adds a final puzzle piece to the alliance around the shores of the strategically important Baltic Sea — but Russia still poses a threat above and below water. But analysts warn that while Sweden's entry makes it easier for NATO to exert control and reinforce its vulnerable Baltic states, Russia can still menace the region from …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Explained: How Sweden joining NATO is a win-win for both sides

Firstpost

Sweden will finally get to join NATO after Hungary passed a vote on the same. The military alliance will now have 32 members after Hungary, the final hurdle in Sweden’s path to membership, held a parliamentary vote to approve the move. Sweden’s prime minister Ulf Kristersson hailed the moment of the country joining NATO. The Wilson Centre in one of …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Sweden won’t reopen an investigation into 1994 Baltic Sea ferry disaster

Associated Press

STOCKHOLM — Sweden won’t reopen an investigation into a 1994 ferry sinking in the Baltic Sea that killed 852 people in one of Europe’s deadliest peacetime sea disasters, after investigators in Estonia, Finland and Sweden found no indication of a collision or an explosion, the prosecutor said Thursday. “There is nothing to indicate that there would have been a collision …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Sweden reports damage to an undersea cable to Estonia, after Finland cites damage to a gas pipeline

Associated Press

STOCKHOLM — Sweden on Tuesday reported partial damage to an undersea telecommunications cable in the Baltic Sea running to Estonia that authorities believe occurred at the same time as damage to an undersea gas pipeline and telecom cable from Finland to Estonia. Swedish Civil Defense Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin said Tuesday that the damage to the cable between Sweden and Estonia …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Large methane gas leak in Baltic Sea discovered

Al Jazeera

A major methane gas leak is flowing from unusual depths of the Baltic Sea, Sweden research expedition finds. Researchers in Sweden have discovered that large amounts of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, is leaking from unusual depths of the Baltic Sea seabed. “We know that methane gas can bubble up from shallow seabeds near the Baltic Sea coast, but I’ve …

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1 year, 6 months ago

NATO’s largest air force drill prepares for ‘crisis situation’

Al Jazeera

Some 250 aircraft from 25 NATO and partner countries with 10,000 military personnel are participating in ‘Air Defender 23’. NATO has started the largest-ever air force deployment exercise in the Western military alliance’s history, a drill being presented as a display of unity among members and partners of the bloc as tensions with Russia have escalated following Moscow’s full-scale invasion …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Danes confirm ‘extensive damage” to Baltic Sea pipelines

Associated Press

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Danish officials on Tuesday confirmed that there has been “extensive damage” to the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea off Denmark and that the cause of the damage was “powerful explosions.” In a statement, the Copenhagen Police said it had carried out a number of preliminary investigations of what it called “the …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Germany opens investigation of Baltic gas pipeline blasts

Associated Press

BERLIN — German prosecutors on Monday opened an investigation into the suspected sabotage of two gas pipelines built to bring Russian gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea. Undersea explosions late last month ruptured the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which until Russia cut off supplies at the end of August was its main supply route to Germany. German federal prosecutors, …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Sweden seizes evidence at Baltic Sea pipeline leak site

Associated Press

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Sweden’s domestic security agency said Thursday that its preliminary investigation of leaks from two Russian gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea “has strengthened the suspicions of serious sabotage” as the cause and a prosecutor said evidence at the site has been seized. The Swedish Security Service said the probe confirmed that “detonations” caused extensive damage to the …

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2 years, 2 months ago

West rejects Putin’s claim it sabotaged Baltic gas pipelines

Associated Press

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday accused the West of sabotaging Russia-built natural gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea to Germany, a charge vehemently denied by the United States and its allies. Speaking Friday in Moscow at a ceremony to annex four regions of Ukraine into Russia, Putin claimed that “Anglo-Saxons” in the West have turned from …

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2 years, 3 months ago

US Navy assault ship takes part in Baltic Sea training

The Independent

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Sweden formally asks China to cooperate with investigations into undersea cables damage

Sweden 'formally requests' China to probe Yi Peng Three, the ship accused of damaging cables – Firstpost

Sweden asks China to cooperate in Baltic Sea cable investigation

Sweden asks for China’s cooperation over Baltic Sea cables cut while a Chinese ship was nearby

Europe can’t make Ukraine enough weapons—So it’s paying Kyiv to do it

From Poland’s ‘iron dome’ to boots on the ground: How Europe is preparing for the Third World War

Finnish authorities open probe into ruptured undersea cable between Finland and Germany

Baltic Sea internet cables cut: European officials cry sabotage

Germany says ‘sabotage’ presumed in damaged Baltic Sea telecom cables

Offshore wind farms blocked over national security fears

Thousands of NATO troops join drills in the strategically sensitive Baltic Sea region

While many in the EU worry about far-right gains at the ballot box – those close to Russia crave security

A Chinese ship remains the focus of the investigation into Baltic Sea gas pipeline damaged last year

Focus on Russia as Sweden completes NATO presence along the Baltic shore

Explained: How Sweden joining NATO is a win-win for both sides

Sweden won’t reopen an investigation into 1994 Baltic Sea ferry disaster

Sweden reports damage to an undersea cable to Estonia, after Finland cites damage to a gas pipeline

Large methane gas leak in Baltic Sea discovered

NATO’s largest air force drill prepares for ‘crisis situation’

Danes confirm ‘extensive damage” to Baltic Sea pipelines

Germany opens investigation of Baltic gas pipeline blasts

Sweden seizes evidence at Baltic Sea pipeline leak site

West rejects Putin’s claim it sabotaged Baltic gas pipelines

US Navy assault ship takes part in Baltic Sea training