Baltic Sea

President’s main tasks in the NATO-member state are foreign and defense policy, as supreme commander of the armed forces.

A Chinese container ship remains the prime suspect in causing damage last year to a Baltic Sea gas pipeline between NATO members.

The damage to a telecommunications cable running under the Baltic Sea was “purposeful,” Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson claimed.

A 7-year-old boy who fell overboard from a passenger ferry and his mother, who jumped into he water after him, are both dead, police said.

Royal Air Force and Luftwaffe jets with the Baltic Air Command intercepted a group of Russian aircraft, including a spy plane, on Tuesday. 

Swedish investigators found traces of explosives at the Baltic Sea site where two pipelines were damaged in an act of “gross sabotage”.

164 feet of Nord Stream One is gone following the alleged sabotage of the pipelines, which is confirmed to have been caused by an explosion.

The Nord Stream pipe blasts in the Baltic sea were likely caused by “detonations” of equivalent to “several hundred kilos” of explosives.

Swedish officials do not yet know if an undersea power cable that runs between southern Sweden and Poland was damaged.

The EU suspects sabotage in the Nord Stream case and is warning of retaliation for any attack on Europe’s energy networks.

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that it cannot rule out “sabotage” as the cause of significant damage to the Nord Stream pipeline network that carries gas from Russia to Germany.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Poland´s top leaders celebrated the opening Saturday of a new – albeit unfinished – canal that they say will mean ships no longer must secure Russia´s permission to sail from the Baltic Sea to the ports of the Vistula Lagoon.

A private jet with four people onboard crashed Sunday in the Baltic Sea off the Latvian coast.

MOSCOW (AP) – The Russian military said Thursday that it has deployed warplanes armed with state-of-the-art hypersonic missiles to the country’s westernmost Baltic region, a move that comes amid soaring tensions with the West over Moscow’s action in Ukraine.

U.S. Marines have conducted air drops and amphibious landings on Gotland as part of a NATO exercise in the Baltic Sea.

NATO Director General Jens Stoltenberg has stated that the alliance would guarantee the security of Sweden if the country decides to apply to join the alliance, with an increased military presence in the Baltic sea. NATO Chief Stoltenberg assured Swedes that

Viewed from Paris, London and Washington, the events unfolding in Ukraine may seem like a new Cold War taking shape in Europe.

Ukraine Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov warned on Friday that Russia now has over 94,000 troops massed along the border and could be plotting an invasion before the end of January 2022.

China will soon be holding a week-long joint naval exercise with Russia, including a debut appearance from the Hefei, one of the most advanced warships in the Chinese Navy. The most remarkable aspect of these exercises, however, is their location: the Baltic Sea. China’s ships are fairly literally sailing halfway around the world to get there.

The Russian military, backed up by reporters from several of Russia’s state-controlled media services, claims that a Polish NATO jet attempted to intercept or “buzz” a plane transporting Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu over the Baltic Sea on Wednesday.

Columnist Pat Buchanan asked, “What would we do if a Russian ship was sitting off Pensacola, Florida, you think some Navy guy might buzz that?” During a discussion of Russia buzzing US ships in the Baltic Sea on Friday’s “McLaughlin

On Sunday, U.S. officials revealed another incident involving Russian pilots acting in an “unsafe and unprofessional” manner over the Baltic Sea. This time, a Russian fighter intercepted a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance plane, coming within fifty feet of the American aircraft before executing a barrel roll over it.

The US military shooting down a Russian warplane that flew close to an American warship in the Baltic Sea could have been justified, says Secretary of State John Kerry.

The U.S. Navy reports that the destroyer USS Donald Cook “encountered multiple, aggressive flight maneuvers by Russian aircraft that were performed within close proximity of the ship,” while operating in the international waters of the Baltic Sea.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization held a major training exercise in the Baltic Sea, near Russian borders, in the midst of rising tensions between Vladimir Putin and NATO leadership.

Sweden’s military confirmed that a citizen spotted an unknown submarine off the coast of Stockholm on October 31. The government did not confirm the submarine’s nationality, but authorities believe it belonged to Russia.