The Swedish defence ministry announced on Friday that it is drafting legislation to enhance security in the Baltic Sea through the expansion of the coast guard's maritime surveillance capabilities.

Baltic Sea Region is on high alert after a series of outages of gas and cable pipelines under the sea in the years that followed Russia's invasion of Ukraine 2022, and recent drone sightings.

Carl-Oskar Böhlin, Sweden's Minister of Civil Defence, said in a press release: "We did not choose our external situation. But we must face the reality that we are faced with."

NATO, which Sweden is part of, announced on

Saturday

The Baltic Sea Fleet announced that an air-defence cruiser and other assets would be added to its Baltic Sea mission.

Drone incursions

in Denmark. (Reporting and editing by Terje Solsvik, Louise Breusch Rasmussen)

(source: Reuters)