NATO is deploying eyes in the sky and on the Baltic Sea to protect cables and pipelines that stitch together the nine countries with shores on Baltic waters.

A Bulgarian shipping company on Monday denied that one of its ships had intentionally damaged an underwater fiber optic cable.

SOFIA - The Bulgarian company BMF, which owns the ship Vezhen arrested by Swedish authorities for damaging an underwater cable, has denied suspicions of sabotage, blaming bad sea weather. On Sunday, Swedish authorities detained the Maltese-flagged ship Vezhen,

Sofia Bulgaria - The Swedish coast guard chased and intercepted a Bulgarian ship after a fiber-optic cable under the Baltic Sea linking Sweden to Latvi

ABOARD A FRENCH NAVY FLIGHT OVER THE BALTIC SEA (AP) — With its powerful camera ... David Klepper in Washington and Veselin Toshkov in Sofia, Bulgaria, contributed to this report.

Swedish authorities boarded a Maltese-flagged ship seized in connection with the latest breach of cables running along the bottom of the Baltic Sea to begin an investigation into the matter, the country's security police said on Monday.

Kalchev’s statement followed the announcement that Swedish prosecutors had launched a preliminary investigation on suspicion of sabotage, after the ship was detained in the Baltic Sea.

ABOARD A FRENCH NAVY FLIGHT OVER THE BALTIC SEA (AP) — With its powerful camera ... David Klepper in Washington and Veselin Toshkov in Sofia, Bulgaria, contributed to this report.

ABOARD A FRENCH NAVY FLIGHT OVER THE BALTIC SEA — With its powerful camera ... David Klepper in Washington and Veselin Toshkov in Sofia, Bulgaria, contributed to this report.

ABOARD A FRENCH NAVY FLIGHT OVER THE BALTIC SEA (AP) — With its powerful camera ... David Klepper in Washington and Veselin Toshkov in Sofia, Bulgaria, contributed to this report.

NATO is ratcheting up its guard against suspected attempts to sabotage underwater energy and data cables and pipelines that crisscross the Baltic Sea.

(John Leicester/AP) ABOARD A FRENCH NAVY FLIGHT OVER THE BALTIC SEA — With its powerful camera ... David Klepper in Washington and Veselin Toshkov in Sofia, Bulgaria, contributed to this ...