The Nordic country has opened an investigation into the damage, just weeks after NATO stepped up its military presence in the area following a series of similar incidents.

The Vezhen ship, owned by Navigation Maritime Bulgare, might have accidentally damaged the cable between Sweden and Latvia. The incident, reported by Reuters, was not intentional according to the company's head,

Sweden detained a vessel suspected of damaging a subsea data cable connecting it with Latvia, the third such incident in the Baltic Sea in the past three months.

Swedish authorities seized the Vezhen, sailing under the flag of Malta and registered with a Bulgarian shipping company, on Sunday over suspected sabotage of an underwater cable.View on euronews