UN: Fishing trawlers, not sabotage, behind most undersea cable damage


Crew members aboard a French Navy Atlantique 2 surveillance plane patrolling on Jan 23, 2025, over the Baltic Sea as part of the NATO military alliance's 'Baltic Sentry' mission to protect undersea cables and pipelines from sabotage watch one of the onboard monitors showing images from the aircraft's cameras of a ship navigating on the Baltic. — AP

GENEVA: Much has been written about suspected sabotage of undersea cables in the Baltic Sea, but the UN says fishing trawlers are causing the most damage by far, rather than spies.

Western officials have accused Russian vessels of sabotaging undersea communications and power cables in several high-profile incidents in the Baltic Sea in recent months.

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