The cargo ship Vezhen did damage a subsea cable linking Sweden and Latvia last month but it was an accident, not sabotage, a Swedish prosecutor said on Monday, adding that the Maltese-flagged vessel ...

27, 2025. (Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency via AP) STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish prosecutors decided Monday to release a vessel belonging to a Bulgarian shipping company after ruling out initial suspicions ...

Damage to the cable running between the Latvian city of Ventspils and the Swedish island of Gotland was detected on Jan. 26 and the vessel was seized by Swedish authorities later that day.

The prosecutor said the Vezhen's anchor severed the cable but that the incident was related to a combination of bad weather, equipment deficiencies and poor seamanship. "We can see that the anchor ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish prosecutors decided Monday to release a vessel belonging to a Bulgarian shipping company after ruling out initial suspicions that sabotage caused damage to an undersea ...

The Swedish Prosecution Authority (SPA) announced on Monday it was releasing a cargo ship that had been suspected of sabotaging a communications cable in the Baltic Sea, explaining that its ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -The cargo ship Vezhen did damage a subsea cable linking Sweden and Latvia last month but it was an accident, not sabotage, a Swedish prosecutor said on Monday, adding that the ...

Damage to the cable running between was detected on Jan. 26 and the vessel was seized by Swedish authorities later that day. This was one of a string of recent incidents of ruptured undersea ...

A Norwegian-owned, Russian-crewed ship that authorities initially suspected of involvement in damage to an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland has been ...