"Had it continued for another 12 minutes, the carnage would have been much worse than the four basic cables that were there," Finnish President Alexander Stubb said.

Russia is believed to be behind dozens of hybrid attacks, like arson or sabotage, on NATO soil since the Ukraine war started.

Russia's oil shipments via the Baltic Sea fell by roughly 10% in the last four months of 2024, the Finnish Border Guard said, as the impact of EU sanctions against Russian oil and gas exports adopted in June took effect.

The Eagle S tanker seized by Finnish authorities on suspicion of ripping up subsea cables will not face a separate criminal investigation into whether its fuel cargo violates sanctions imposed on Russia,

A researcher says that hardly anyone has high expectations for Finland's year-long leadership term of the OSCE. But Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen has a different view of the situation.

On January 1, 2025, Finland assumed the Organization for Security and Co-Operation (OSCE) chairpersonship ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act (also known as the Helsinki Accords). Finland’s chairpersonship comes at a difficult time for the OSCE, the world’s largest security organization with 57 participating states.

The incidents contributed to mounting European fears of sabotage, as NATO officials accuse Russia of a growing “destabilization campaign” over their military support for Ukraine and sanctions against Moscow.

NATO is launching a new mission to protect undersea cables in the Baltic Sea region after a string of incidents that have heightened fears of Russian sabotage and spying.

The Baltic country shares a border with Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast. President of Lithuania, Gitanas Nauseda, in Helsinki, Finland, January 14, 2025. Lithuania has decided to raise its spending on defense to between 5 percent and 6 percent of overall ...

Finnish President Alexander Stubb said on Tuesday that his country had stopped the crew of a Russia-linked oil tanker ... week's Baltic-focused NATO summit in Helsinki. The tanker, the Eagle ...

Crew on board an oil tanker accused of sabotaging undersea power and communications cables in the Baltic Sea were poised to cut other cables and pipelines when Finnish authorities boarded the vessel last month,

Baltic NATO countries meeting in Helsinki on Tuesday vowed to boost patrol missions after several telecom and power cables were severed in the Baltic Sea in recent months, with experts and