An undersea data cable between Latvia and Sweden was damaged early on January 26, the latest in a series of similar incidents in the Baltic Sea in which critical seabed energy and communications lines are believed to have been severed by ships traveling to or from Russian ports.

The damage to the underwater fiber-optic cable in the Baltic Sea suggests that the Russians could have mastered a new type of aggression toward European nations, which is the "anchor attack". — Ukrinform.

Sweden has detained a ship suspected of damaging a new undersea cable in the Baltic Sea connecting the Scandinavian country to Latvia. Swedish authorities seized the vessel Michalis San, which was en route to Russia,