The speech of the British Minister of Defense, Wednesday January 22, “had something unusual”, estimates the daily The Guardian. In front of parliamentarians, John Healey made the recent maneuver public “uncommon” of a Royal Navy submarine. “These machines are generally supposed to operate discreetly, in great depths,” underlines the London newspaper.
But at the end of November, the minister decided to authorize an Astute-class nuclear submersible to emerge near a Russian ship, the Free, suspected of espionage in British waters. “A strictly dissuasive measure”, said the Labor minister. Coupled with the following warning addressed to the Kremlin: “We know what you are doing and we will not hesitate to respond robustly.”
Concretely, specifies the Financial Times, “the Liberate was spotted lurking above crucial undersea cables” off the coast of Cornwall (southwest of England). “The area is a strategic node for transatlantic communications,” completes the weekly The Spectator. According to the conservative weekly, some 99% of the country’s international digital exchanges pass by sea.
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