Swedish and Finnish police are investigating a suspected case of sabotage of an undersea telecoms cable in the Baltic Sea, and Sweden's coast guard has deployed a vessel to the area where multiple seabed cables have been damaged in recent months.

Swedish authorities are investigating reports of a breach of an undersea cable in the Baltic Sea, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on social media platform X on Friday. "I have for some time been aware of media reports of a possible new cable break in the Baltic Sea,

A string of incidents involving damage to cables and other infrastructure in the Baltic Sea have occurred in recent months, amid soaring tensions between the West and Russia over Moscow's war in Ukraine.