In recent years, the Baltic Sea has experienced an increase in incidents involving damage to subsea infrastructure, including the Nordstream pipelines in 2022 and multiple internet cables and a gas pipeline in 2023-2024.
While the 2022 Nordstream incident was confirmed as sabotage, later incidents have involved suspicious anchor drags by Chinese-registered vessels and vessels linked to Russia's "shadow fleet," leading to concerns of intentional sabotage and raising fears of a hybrid warfare campaign by Russia or other malicious actors
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