{"id":1433724,"date":"2023-10-21T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1433724"},"modified":"2023-10-21T13:20:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T17:20:00","slug":"nato-sends-drones-planes-and-ships-to-baltic-sea-following-suspected-undersea-sabotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/nato-sends-drones-planes-and-ships-to-baltic-sea-following-suspected-undersea-sabotage\/1433724\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO Sends Drones, Planes And Ships To Baltic Sea Following Suspected Undersea Sabotage"},"content":{"rendered":"

NATO Sends Drones, Planes And Ships To Baltic Sea Following Suspected Undersea Sabotage<\/span><\/p>\n

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By John Vandiver of Stars and Stripes<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Drones, reconnaissance planes and ships have been dispatched to the Baltic Sea, a move that comes in response to recently discovered damage to critical undersea infrastructure, NATO said this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cNATO will continue to adapt its maritime posture in the Baltic Sea and will take all necessary steps to keep allies safe,\u201d NATO spokesman Dylan White said Thursday in a statement.<\/p>\n

A NATO AWACS aircraft flies over Europe, May 17, 2023. NATO has sent the AWACS and other aircraft, along with minehunter vessels, to the Baltic Sea in response to recently discovered damage to undersea infrastructure, the alliance said<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The vulnerability of undersea gas pipelines and communication cables to sabotage is a growing NATO concern. Alliance officials have warned that Russia could target such infrastructure to gain leverage against allied countries providing security assistance to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, those concerns were brought into focus when Sweden reported partial damage to an undersea telecommunications cable connected to Estonia. Authorities suspect the damage occurred at the same time an undersea gas pipeline and telecommunications cable running from Finland to Estonia was found to be damaged last week.<\/p>\n

The incidents remain under investigation and senior NATO officials have refrained from blaming Russia so far.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it is proven to be a deliberate attack on NATO-critical infrastructure, then this will be, of course, serious, but it will also be met by a united and determined response,\u201d NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said last week during a meeting of allied defense ministers.<\/p>\n

NATO said it will more closely monitor an area that already had been under surveillance since the 2022 sabotage of Nord Stream 1, a Baltic Sea pipeline that delivered natural gas from Russia to Germany.<\/p>\n

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Maritime patrol aircraft, NATO AWACS planes, drones and a fleet of four minehunter vessels are part of the enhanced surveillance effort.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe continue to monitor the situation closely, and we remain in close contact with our allies Estonia and Finland, and our partner Sweden,\u201d White said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 10\/21\/2023 – 09:20<\/span><\/p>\n

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