NATO allies foil Russian subsea cable sabotage plot

A general view of snow-capped mountains and the Arctic Ocean on the coast of Svalbard near Longyearbyen, Norway, in April 2023. Deep in Arctic waters near the remote Svalbard archipelago this spring, NATO allies caught Russian subs training to unleash a secret weapon designed to disable critical undersea cables without leaving any fingerprints.

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An undated British Ministry of Defence handout shows surface and sub-surface satellite imagery of Russia’s Main Directorate for Deep Sea Research associated vessels based at Olenya Guba in Russia. Deep in Arctic waters near the remote Svalbard archipelago this spring, NATO allies caught Russian subs training to unleash a secret weapon designed to disable critical undersea cables without leaving any fingerprints.