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UK Urged to Bolster Undersea Cable Security Amid Threats
10/3/2025
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- Russia pursues information warfare against undersea cables, including detection at great depths.
- Yi Peng 3 and Eagle S damaged cables linking Sweden, Lithuania, Finland, and Estonia.
- The Joint Committee on National Security Strategy urges the UK to strengthen cable protection, citing £220 billion transactions.
- About 200 cables fail annually; Baltic Sentry seeks safeguards, and compute-power relocation could raise costs.