Sweden seizes ship suspected of Baltic Sea cable sabotage

Swedish authorities seized and boarded the cargo ship Vezhen amid a SÄPO-led probe into suspected sabotage of a subsea communications cable linking Ventspils, Latvia, and Gotland, Sweden. The report places the incident within a series of recent Baltic Sea infrastructure disruptions— including Finland’s seizure of the Eagle S and NATO’s heightened posture—while LVRTC maintains services via alternative routes with limited impact to end users.