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

Baltic Sentry taps at least 10 ships under NATO command at any given time and splits them into two task groups. It also uses ...

The Baltic Sea has become a major area of concern for NATO. Over the past year, undersea pipelines and communication cables ...

NATO member Finland is now using aerial drones to monitor the Baltic Sea, as the alliance takes more steps to prevent ...

After a series of suspicious cable cuttings feared to be Russian sabotage, NATO began a new mission called Baltic Sentry to patrol the Baltic Sea. Michael Schwirtz, an investigative reporter with the ...

Meanwhile, Belgian Navy Commander Erik Kockx, who heads a group taking part in a NATO mission in the Baltic Sea, pointed out that it’s hard to evaluate the practical effect of the bloc’s ...

NBC News joined a NATO flotilla as it sailed the icy sea hunting Russian saboteurs accused of targeting undersea cables.

Western officials earlier blamed Moscow for damage to subsea power and communications lines in the waterway, a notion Russia ...

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 ...

KLAIPĖDA, Lithuania—As Russia has carried out its brutal invasion of Ukraine, it has increasingly resorted to hybrid warfare ...

US Marine personnel have been stationed in Finland - their use of unmanned aerial vehicles has been part of NATO’s Baltic ...

ABOARD THE HNLMS LUYMES—Belgian Navy Commander Erik Kockx was patrolling the Baltic Sea recently when he got word that a ship on NATO’s watchlist was acting in a suspicious manner. After ...