Russia has around 50 likely spy ships that may be plotting sabotage in Northern European waters, targeting both underwater communications and wind farms.
Russia has stepped up military activity around key submarine cables in northern waters. What the United States perceives as the danger of potential Russian sabotage aimed at disabling a critical part of the global communications infrastructure. CNN writes this on Friday, September 6, citing two anonymous US officials.
According to one of the sources of the publication, Russia has created a special unit of GUGI (Main Directorate of Deep-Sea Research of the General Staff), which includes warships, submarines and sea drones.
“We are concerned about the increasing activity of the Russian Navy around the world. Russia continues to develop naval capabilities for underwater sabotage, mainly through the top-secret GUGI unit,” said of the source.
The publication notes that the United States routinely sees Russian ships passing near critical marine infrastructure and submarine cables, often far from Russian shores.
“The vast network of high-speed fiber optic cables running on the ocean floor is the critical backbone of Internet traffic and telecommunications around the world. A coordinated attack on the undersea infrastructure could be significant disrupt private, government and military communications, as well as industries that depend on it.” from such communications, in particular financial markets, submarine cables also transmit large volumes of electricity between several European countries,” the source explained.
Particular activity of Russian ships was recorded in the seas around Northern Europe. They believe that Russia probably has around 50 spy ships that may be preparing sabotage in the waters of Northern Europe, aimed at both underwater communications and wind power plants.
The sources noted that the United States would consider any sabotage against underwater infrastructure as a significant escalation of Russian aggression outside of Ukraine.
The Security Service and the National Police neutralized two bot farms in the Poltava and Transcarpathian regions that worked for the Russian intelligence services.
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Source: korrespondent
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