NATO allies foil Russian subsea internet cable sabotage plot

LONDON/WASHINGTON: Deep in Arctic waters near the remote Svalbard archipelago this spring, NATO allies caught Russian subs training to unleash a secret weapon designed to disable critical undersea cables without leaving any fingerprints.

The clandestine Russian operation, described to Reuters ​by two Western officials, was carried out by Moscow’s GUGI undersea warfare directorate, which used deep-sea ​submersibles to simulate the deployment of the sophisticated and destructive technology.