Sweden has opened a preliminary investigation into suspected aggravated “sabotage” and ordered the detention of a vessel in the Baltic Sea suspected of damaging an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland earlier that day.

Sweden on Sunday said it had seized a ship suspected of having damaged a fiber-optic cable under the Baltic Sea linking the country to Latvia, which sent a warship to investigate the latest apparent act of sabotage.

RIGA: Latvia said it had dispatched a warship on Sunday after damage to a fibre optic cable to Sweden that may

There have been previous incidents reported of ruptures of data cables running on the Baltic sea bed, allegedly linked to Russia's shadow fleet — hundreds of aging tankers of un

A subsea data cable between Latvia and Sweden was damaged early Sunday, sparking a criminal investigation, a third such incident in the Baltic Sea in the past three months.