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Russian Trawlers Tracked Over UK Undersea Cables, Analysis Finds
Alexxx1979, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (Russian trawler, White Sea)
A Telegraph analysis of vessel-tracking data found more than 500 incidents of Russian trawlers loitering over, or following, Britain's undersea cables across four and a half years. Ministers say Vladimir Putin uses commercial proxies to map the cables, which carry banking, hospital and mobile services. A NATO source said some of these ships have never seen a fish. The government plans tougher penalties for saboteurs.
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