Ukraine’s bombardment of energy infrastructure in western Russia is now a month old. Kyiv says its kamikaze aircraft are ...

A spate of sabotage attacks on underwater cables, allegedly perpetrated by a Russian "shadow fleet", have shown global telecommunications infrastructure is poorly protected against deliberate acts of ...

Most of the world's data travels via ocean cables, which are at risk of frequent sabotage. DW explains where they lie and how they are protected.

The Estlink 2 submarine cable was disconnected from the grid on December 25, just over a month after two telecommunications cables were severed in Swedish territorial waters in the Baltic Sea.

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Nearly 3 1/2 decades after leaving the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and ...

Damage to an underwater fibre optic cable in the Baltic Sea, running from Ventspils in Latvia, to the Swedish island of Gotland, was detected last Sunday. Image: Pic: Reuters "It is suspected that ...

OSLO, Feb 1 (Reuters) - A Norwegian cargo ship with an all-Russian crew suspected of damaging a Baltic Sea telecoms cable has been released by authorities in Norway after no link to the incident ...

The Baltic Sea region is on high alert after a string of power cable, telecom link and gas pipeline outages since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, and the NATO military alliance recently boosted ...

had been involved in serious cable damage that was discovered last weekend in the Baltic Sea. The authorities didn’t elaborate, but said they were searching the ship and conducting interviews.

"It is suspected that the ship has been involved in serious damage to a fibre cable in the Baltic Sea between Latvia and Sweden," the police said in a statement. “The Norwegian-owned and flagged ...