Sweden is deploying ships and aircrafts to increase maritime surveillance after the recent damage to undersea infrastructure.
The incidents have sparked a race to safeguard the infrastructure after a series of mysterious cases of cables severed in the Baltic Sea, blamed by Western officials on Russian sabotage.
The Swedish Coast Guard said that it is cooperating closely with the Swedish navy and other government agencies.
It also said that it has reinforced its maritime surveillance by vessels and aircrafts to protect “critical undersea infrastructure.”
The many incidents in the Baltic Sea since the Russian invasion in Ukraine are just one episode of an undeclared war waged by states unfriendly to the West.
One of the Swedish Coast Guard’s main missions is to conduct maritime surveillance, monitor maritime environments, and provide maritime information to relevant government agencies.
“The Swedish Coast Guard takes a very serious view of recent repeated damage to undersea infrastructure. In light of the recent incident in the Gulf of Finland on December 25, the Swedish Coast Guard has now reinforced its maritime surveillance. Among other things, this involves vessels and aircrafts,” pointed out Daniel Stenling, acting head of the operations department at the Swedish Coast Guard.
News of the increased surveillance of marine traffic came after the European Commission issued last Thursday a statement reporting, “In response to these incidents, we are strengthening efforts to protect undersea cables, including enhanced information exchange, new detection technologies, as well as in undersea repair capabilities, and international cooperation. We remain committed to ensuring the resilience and security of our critical infrastructure.”
The European Commission clarified that at present there is no risk to the security of electricity supply in the region.
