Head of Critical Undersea Infrastructure Co-ordination at NATO believes that the most likely location for any attack on cables would be in shallow waters – like those found in the Atlantic within the Irish Exclusive Economic Zone.
THE GENERAL IN charge of the NATO strategy to protect critical undersea cables and pipelines has said that the military alliance believes Russia has mapped the infrastructure off the coast of Ireland.
He also outlined new plans to open a control and command centre at Northwood in the UK to monitor, in real time, threats and attacks on undersea infrastructure off the coast of Europe. He said that NATO, in conjunction with the European Union, were examining the risk to the cables off the Irish coast.
“I talked in more general terms about the international waters and the high seas. And of course, to the west of Ireland, is high seas. “So I wouldn’t exclude that,” he said, referring to the possibility of NATO operations to protect the infrastructure – noting that his observation applied to every cable or pipeline “that is in international waters and high seas”.
Earlier this week Reuters reported that Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president who is now deputy of Russia’s Security Council that there were “no constraints” left to prevent Putin’s regime from blowing up communication cables.
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