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The Polish Air Force intercepts and escorts a Russian aerial reconnaissance aircraft over international waters in the Baltic Sea away from nearby Polish airspace. 2025-12-25
The C-Lion1 submarine communications cable across the Baltic Sea between Finland and Germany is damaged in what German officials suspect is sabotage. 2024-11-18
The Russian Ministry of Defence proposes to unilaterally adjust Russia's maritime border in the Baltic Sea, prompting comments of concern made by Baltic members of NATO, including Finland and Lithuania. The Ministry of Defense later retracts the proposal. 2024-05-22
An over 10,000-years-old underwater structure from the Stone Age is discovered in the Bay of Mecklenburg, in the Baltic Sea. The kilometer long stone wall might be the oldest man-made structure on earth. 2024-02-14
Russia accuses the United Kingdom's Royal Navy of blowing up the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea on September 26. The Russian Defence Ministry says the Navy was also behind recent attacks on Russian Navy facilities in Crimea. The British government denies both accusations. 2022-10-29
A private Cessna 551 crashes into the Baltic Sea, off the coast of Latvia. 2022-09-4
Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant, the "Akademik Lomonosov," sets sail across the Baltic Sea from St. Petersburg. 2018-04-30
A Russian Su-27 jet intercepts a United States Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance plane while in international airspace over the Baltic Sea. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says, "We condemn this kind of behavior. It is reckless. It is provocative. It is dangerous." 2016-04-17
Copenhagen Suborbitals fire the world's largest privately-built rocket, HEAT 1X Tycho Brahe into the Baltic Sea, 30 km east of Nexø.2011-06-3
More than 200 passengers are rescued, 20 of whom sustain injuries, from Baltic Sea ferry "Lisco Gloria", en route from Kiel to Klaipėda, after it ignites near Fehmarn off the eastern coast of Schleswig-Holstein. There are reports of an explosion on board. 2010-10-9