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.

STOCKHOLM — Swedish authorities said Friday they were investigating a damaged cable that was discovered in the Baltic Sea , the latest in a string of recent incidents of ruptured undersea cables that have heightened fears of Russian sabotage and spying in the region.

Swedish police have been investigating the suspected sabotage of an undersea telecoms cable in the Baltic Sea, connecting Germany and Finland. A series of undersea cables and gas pipelines have been damaged in suspected attacks since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022,

A subsea data cable that has sustained damage offshore the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea remains operational, its Finnish owner said.

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,