Finland says a ship affiliated with Russia's "shadow fleet" is linked to a 60-mile-long anchor drag mark on the seafloor. A power cable in the Baltic Sea was severed last week.
The first speech by NATO’s new secretary-general, Mark Rutte, on December 12 was ominous for more than one reason. The obvious one was what Rutte explicitly wanted to tell us. He said we are “not yet at war but definitely no longer at peace.
The new NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte currently does not see any danger of a Russian attack on the defence alliance's territory, but looks to the future with concern. "No fear for now," he said in an interview with dpa when asked whether NATO countries should be afraid of Russia,
The Baltic Sea has seen multiple attacks on energy and communications infrastructure since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. These have often been linked to hybrid warfare tactics
Miles-long anchor drag mark found on Baltic seabed
Police in Finland probing damage to undersea cables say a shadowy Russia-linked ship may have dragged its anchor for more than 60 miles.
In a post on X, Rutte said that he had spoken to Finland ... Finland, which shares a 1,340-kilometer (832-mile) border with Russia, joined NATO in 2023, abandoning a decades-old policy of ...
Russia has assembled a fleet of hundreds of vessels to covertly ship its oil. With so many ships at sea, the idea of using some to cause havoc may be proving irresistible to the Kremlin.
Russia and Ukraine have been locked in an intractable-seeming conflict that has thrown not only the two nations into a state of prolonged chaos but huge swaths of Eastern Europe as well. While ostensibly a war over territorial expansion and ethnic sovereignty,
Moscow has warned Donald Trump against resuming the testing of nuclear weapons when he takes office, saying it would “not rule anything out” in response to US aggression. Sergei Ryabkov, Russia’s deputy foreign minister who oversees arms control, noted that Mr Trump refused to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty during his first term.
The Estlink 2 power transmission cable was ruptured on Christmas Day. An oil tanker suspected of being part of Russia's so-called shadow fleet is under investigation.
South Korea's spy agency said Friday it had confirmed that a North Korean soldier sent to back Russia's war against Ukraine had been captured by Ukrainian forces.