NATO is launching a new patrol and surveillance operation ... the carnage would have been much worse,” Finnish President Alexander Stubb told reporters Tuesday. A few weeks earlier, in November, an underwater communications cable between Finland and ...

NATO is launching a new mission to protect undersea cables in the Baltic Sea region after a string of incidents that have heightened concerns about possible Russian activities, the alliance’s leader said.

The strategy follows a series of suspected sabotage attacks on telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea in recent months carried out by a fleet of tankers and vessels linked to Russia.