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European and transatlantic security consultant Edward Lucas for The Times: This month, something took out the gas pipeline between Estonia and Finland. It won’t be operational until April. An accident? Unlikely. Investigators are paying attention to strange movements of a Russian ship and a Chinese-flagged vessel. Privately, officials say the evidence of Kremlin involvement is overwhelming. So why not say so? Because then we’d have to do something about it.
The UK Ministry of Defence told me only that it regularly monitors activity to “counter and deter potential threats”. But according to insiders, Russia and China are “way ahead of us in deep-sea espionage and sabotage”. Russia may get bogged down in Ukraine, but that doesn’t mean it can’t cause problems elsewhere, the Latvian president notes. Perhaps the impetus is that the three Baltic states are finally being disconnected from the Russian electricity system. This means greater dependence on the electricity and gas supply lines running along the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
The entire article can be read at the link https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/undersea-sabotage-is-russias-latest-weapon-kqt7qr2qn
