According to the repeated damage to underwater cables, the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned against the dangers of the Russian shadow fleet. As reported, a fiber optic cable for data transfer between Sweden and Latvia on Sunday was badly damaged.
Now the protection of the Baltic Sea and the critical infrastructure on the seabed will be improved, the federal Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz promised Tuesday. NATO remains the “guarantee for our common security”. That is why many member states have “considerably” increased their defense expenditure in recent years. “We agree that we should strengthen the European pillar of NATO and further increase the defense defivation,” said Scholz.
The new US President Donald Trump had threatened in the past with the end of NATO support Spact if the European countries should not invest at least five percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in their defense. At present, this rate is only at least two percent.
Outdated ships in sight
The Danish government announced on Monday to increase the military presence in the North Pole and the North Atlantic Ocean with three new ships for the waters around Greenland. Other long -distance brul and satellites are also used.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, important telecommunications and power cables have been damaged several times in the Baltic Sea. Experts assume that they attack hybrid on the west on behalf of Russia. The so-called shadow fleet, often outdated and under foreign flag, is the alleged direct cause of the cable damage, with which the Kremlin bypasses the oil-embargo imposed.
Source: Krone
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