The assignment was part of a new program aimed at suspected Russian sabotage. None has occurred since NATO began patrols.

One of the Kremlin’s newest threats, according to NATO, is targeting undersea cables carrying vast quantities of data and power beneath the Baltic Sea to countries in northern Europe.

ABOARD THE HNLMS LUYMES—Belgian Navy Commander Erik Kockx was patrolling the Baltic Sea recently when he ... though suspicion of it runs high in NATO countries. Baltic Sentry taps at least ...

For decades the Baltic Sea has served as a delicate buffer zone between a growing number of NATO members and Russia, more recently becoming a new front line for symmetric and asymmetric threats ...

NATO has been using ships and aircraft to monitor the Baltic Sea since January. The move came after undersea power lines and communication cables were severed. Some nations suspect that Russia was ...

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology. She ...

All other countries bordering the Baltic Sea — Germany, Finland, Sweden, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia — are NATO members.

Nikolai Patrushev, an aide to Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin, has claimed that Moscow perceives a threat from NATO in the Baltic region, particularly regarding Russia's port infrastructure and shipping.

We are around 30,000 feet above the Baltic Sea, on a Nato surveillance ... Air policing missions like this - and Nato membership more broadly - have long made tiny Baltic nations of Lithuania ...

will allow Poland and the three Baltic countries to start stockpiling and using landmines again. Sign up here. "Military threats to NATO member states bordering Russia and Belarus have ...

Poland and Baltic Nations Plan to Withdraw From Landmine Convention By Andrius Sytas and Barbara Erling VILNIUS/WARSAW (Reuters) -NATO members Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia plan to ...