Telegraph: Ministers have confirmed that Moscow is using “commercial proxies” to threaten vital undersea infrastructure.
Analysis by The Telegraph has uncovered more than 500 incidents in which Russian trawlers loitered above vital communications cables linking Britain with Europe and the US, or followed their routes for miles.
It suggests that Russian vessels are mapping the precise locations of fibre-optic cables carrying billions of pounds of economic activity every day, potentially allowing them to be attacked in a future conflict with Nato...