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Around 30 telecom towers along Sweden’s E22 highway have been deliberately sabotaged in recent weeks, with cables cut and equipment damaged but nothing stolen. Police suspect the same actor is behind most incidents, and the national security service is monitoring the situation. The attacks, gathered in a narrow geographic area, have triggered crisis responses but caused limited service disruption. Authorities believe the sabotage may be a way to test Sweden’s response capabilities, and the trend is seen as part of a broader rise in threats to critical infrastructure

Ukraina inbjuden till NATO-toppmötet i Haag, - Zelenskyj

Zelenskyj: Träffade Rumäniens nye president Nicusor Dan för första gången och gratulerade honom till valsegern.

Zelenskyj: Träffade Polens president Andrzej Duda. Vi diskuterade bilaterala relationer, diplomatiskt arbete och vikten av att sätta press på Ryssland för att få till stånd en rättvis fred. Vi har också ömsesidigt fördelaktiga ekonomiska projekt.

President Zelenskyj deltar i toppmötet i Vilnius mellan de nio nordiska länderna i Bukarest.

Russia's Baltic Fleet: Launches maneuvers in the Baltic Sea with the participation of more than 20 ships, 3,000 troops, and 25 aircraft and helicopters.

Interfax: Russian forces begin major maneuvers in the Baltic Sea

Merz: Hybrid attacks, severed cables, and damaged pipelines in the Baltic Sea threaten our common security. We are preparing ourselves with our Nordic partners. This shows that Europe stands together. Germany plays a role.

Russian Foreign Ministry: Finnish naval exercises are becoming an instrument of NATO escalation near the Russian border

REPORTER: On Russia, are you worried about the reports of a military buildup along the borders of Finland and Norway. TRUMP: No. I don't worry about that at all

Den ryska flottan har gripit en oljetanker som lämnat en estnisk hamn. Enligt det estniska utrikesministeriet lämnade tankern Green Admire, som seglar under liberiansk flagg, hamnen i Sillamae i östra Estland för Rotterdam i Nederländerna, men gripits av ryska myndigheter.

Finnish Air Force: A Finnish Air Force F-18 Hornet fighter jet crashed. The pilot ejected and has been located.

Litauens huvudstad Vilnius presenterade idag en evakueringsplan i händelse av krig, eftersom den baltiska nationen oroar sig för att terrorstaten Ryssland kan rikta in sig på den nästa efter invasionen av Ukraina

Den ryska regeringen har sagt upp avtal med Norge, Sverige och Finland om samarbete i Barentsregionen

Russia says Estonia's seizure of Russia-bound oil tanker poses risks to Baltic shipping and security

Estonia has detained a tanker belonging to Russia's shadow fleet. The vessel was sailing under the flag of Djibouti, but it turned out that the tanker was not in any register. The Estonian Defense Forces have detained a tanker near the island of Aegna. The vessel KIWALA was used to transport crude oil and was heading to the Russian port of Ust-Luga, sailing along Estonian territorial waters. There were 24 people on board, including the captain, a Chinese citizen, and presumably Mauritanian citizens.

Finnish Prime Minister: Russia will remain a threat to all of Europe

NATO member Finland says it plans to withdraw from the Ottawa convention banning anti-personnel landmines. Poland and the Baltic countries said last month they will withdraw from the convention due to the military threat from neighbouring Russia

Four American soldiers who went missing at the Pabrades training ground in Lithuania have died and their tracked vehicle has been found in a swamp, Lithuanian media reports, but official sources have not yet confirmed this information.

Four US soldiers and their vehicle have been missing for some 24 hours after they disappeared following an exercise at Lithuania's Pabrade training ground, roughly 10 kilometers from the Belarus border

Baltic ministers meet with @SecRubio at the State Dept

Latvia will consider a possible defense agreement with Kosovo, President Edgars Rinkēvičs announced during his official visit to the country

Litauen kommer att föreslå ett orienteringsdatum för Ukrainas EU-anslutning: 1 januari 2030, säger Litauens president Gitanas Nausėda

Natomedlemmarna Polen, Litauen, Lettland och Estland planerar att dra sig ur Ottawakonventionen som förbjuder antipersonella minor på grund av det militära hotet från grannlandet Ryssland, säger de fyra länderna i ett uttalande

Lithuania quit an international convention banning cluster ammunition, amid security concerns over Russia

Zelensky: Hade ett produktivt samtal med våra baltiska vänner: Litauens president Gitanas Nausėda, Lettlands president Edgars Rinkėvis och Estlands premiärminister Kristen Michał. Informerade dem om gårdagens toppmöte i London

Water supply of strategic Baltic island Gotland was sabotaged last night. Someone broke into the pump controls and destroyed them. The pumps serve a large part of Gotland (pop 61k) and had it gone unnoticed could have left all island without water. Water is ok

Svenska myndigheter utreder rapporter om ett brott mot en undervattenskabel i Östersjön

Nytt kabelbrott har inträffat i Östersjön utanför Gotland, rapporterar TV4. Försvarsmakten bekräftar att man fått information om ärendet. Nato-fartyg utreder gärningsmannen

Inför det växande hotet från Ryssland kommer Danmark att avslöja en plan för sin militär på onsdag, meddelade premiärminister Mette Frederiksen på tisdagen.