STOCKHOLM - Swedish and Finnish police are investigating a suspected case of sabotage of an undersea telecoms cable in the Baltic Sea, and Sweden's coast guard has deployed a vessel to the area where multiple seabed cables have been damaged in recent months.

Swedish authorities said Friday they were investigating a damaged cable that was discovered in the Baltic Sea , the latest in a string of recent incidents of ruptured undersea cables that have heightened fears of Russian sabotage and spying in the region.

Swedish authorities are investigating reports of a breach of an undersea cable in the Baltic Sea, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on social media platform X on Friday. "I have for some time been aware of media reports of a possible new cable break in the Baltic Sea,

The Swedish authorities have launched a sabotage investigation after an undersea telecoms cable was damaged in the Baltic Sea, the Swedish newspaper Goteborgs-Posten reported on Feb. 21. The news comes following a string of cases of damaged undersea infrastructure in the region,

The latest in a number of infrastructure damage incidents has renewed fears of Russian sabotage in the region. View on euronews