Baltic Sea Security Schematic Map 2024-2025

Hybrid Warfare Infrastructure and Threat Landscape

C-Lion1 BCS East-West Estlink SwePol Baltic Sea Cable Shadow Fleet - Primorsk Shadow Fleet - Kaliningrad Okunevo Site Baltiysk Gdansk Tallinn Mobile Jammer SWEDEN FINLAND EST LAT LIT POLAND GERMANY DEN Stockholm Helsinki Tallinn Riga Vilnius Gdansk Kaliningrad St. Petersburg Copenhagen Poland Eastern Airspace - Sept 2025 Belarus Ukraine Warsaw Lublin 19-23 drones; 4+ NATO shootdowns; Article 4 invoked Primary GNSS Jamming Zone Kaliningrad - 218th EW Regiment Secondary Zone St. Petersburg area ~200 km Gulf of Finland High-traffic corridor - NATO patrols
Undersea Cables
Shadow Fleet Routes
⚠ Cable Damage Sites
◉ GNSS Jamming Zones
🚢 Shadow Fleet Traffic
📡 EW Antenna Sites
✈️ Affected Airports
GNSS Jamming Cases (January 2025)
Poland: 2,732 cases
Lithuania: 1,185 cases
Latvia: 1,288 cases
Estonia: 1,085 cases
Shadow Fleet Traffic: ~1,000 tankers/year (2023) from Primorsk, Ust-Luga, and Kaliningrad
Baltic Sea Hybrid Warfare Infrastructure and Threat Landscape (2024-2025): Schematic overview showing critical undersea cable routes including C-Lion1 (Finland-Germany) and BCS East-West (Lithuania-Sweden) damaged in November 2024 and February 2025; Russian shadow fleet oil export routes from Primorsk, Ust-Luga, and Kaliningrad ports transporting ~1,000 tankers annually to circumvent EU sanctions; GNSS interference zones originating from Kaliningrad Oblast's Okunevo antenna site and Baltiysk military complex (218th Independent Electronic Warfare Regiment) affecting Polish, Swedish, Lithuanian, and Estonian airspace and maritime corridors with 2,732 jamming incidents in Poland alone (January 2025); and inset showing September 2025 Russian drone incursion into Poland's eastern airspace resulting in 4+ NATO shootdowns and Article 4 invocation. Sources: Gdynia Maritime University, Spire Maritime, Defense News triangulation data, Swedish Coast Guard, European Parliament TRAN Committee, TeleGeography Submarine Cable Map, Council of the European Union.