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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

ABOARD THE HNLMS LUYMES—Belgian Navy Commander Erik Kockx was patrolling the Baltic Sea recently when he got word that a ...

He emphasized that NATO’s eastern flank must not be compromised and that stationing forces in Ukraine could pose risks to Baltic nations’ security. Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovile Sakaliene ...

The most pressing threat to Northern European nations is Russia’s and China’s gray zone threats on undersea lines of communication, senior NATO navy leaders said Monday. The attacks have prompted ...

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.

NATO ally Denmark lies between the North Sea and Baltic Sea where Russia has a major ... of waging a war against one or several NATO nations. The country has pledged to spend more than 3% of ...