Nikolai Patrushev, aid to Putin, has accused the U.S. and the U.K. of intending to sabotage underwater internet cables and planning to destabilize the maritime energy trade.
Citing U.S. officials, CNN reported in September that Russia was developing a sabotage unit with submarines and drones to target underwater infrastructure by order of the defense ministry’s Main Directorate for Deep- Sea Research (GUGI).
A Swedish investigation found evidence of sabotage on the pipelines between Russia and Germany. Moscow had initially accused the U.S. Probes by Sweden and Denmark were closed in February 2024 without identifying those responsible, although a German investigation is ongoing.
Media in Norway have reported concerns at the presence in the last few weeks of the Russian intelligence ship Yantar in international waters alongside its coast near critical seabed infrastructure such as oil and gas pipelines and cables for internet and telecommunications.
Musk made a deal with Putin to extort people into using Starlink.
Musk is a Russian asset trying to start a civil war in the US and WW3. And I have sources.
That seems to be the most logical conclusion.
this makes the most sense
Citation needed.
There’s a difference between a claim and conjecture
I think it’s a joke
Who stands to gain from this? Without undersea infrastructure the lowest latency cross continental communication is going to be through Starlink.
Musk would benefit hy increased interest in Starlink as the ‘safer’ option.
Putin benefits from causing chaos.
Musk and Putin have been in contact for the last couple of years.
So yeah, it probably is to benefit Starlink.
Do you seriously expect tinfoilheads to be capable of cost-benefit analysis?
A Swedish investigation found evidence of sabotage on the pipelines between Russia and Germany. Moscow had initially accused the U.S. Probes by Sweden and Denmark were closed in February 2024 without identifying those responsible, although a German investigation is ongoing.
Are we on this bullshit still? It’s been pretty well established by now that Russia didn’t sabotage its own pipeline.
So US officials are reporting that Russia is developing capabilities they already have and that we should find that outrageous somehow?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter
Fuck autocrats, and fuck assymetric outrage that props them up.
I’m getting downvoted, that’s cute.
The German government has been tightlipped about the affair for two years, but this week, German media outlets ARD, Sueddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit jointly reported that federal prosecutors obtained an arrest warrant against a Ukrainian man. A Polish government spokesperson confirmed it.
The German reports identified the man as Volodymyr Z., a diving instructor who last resided in Poland
https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/nord-stream-pipeline-explosion-ukraine-diver-1.7296527
According to an investigation by three German media outlets, including public broadcaster ARD, Volodymyr Z was part of a team of experienced Ukrainian divers who in September 2022 hired a German yacht, sailed out into the Baltic Sea and planted the explosives, blowing up three of the four Nord Stream pipelines.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvyz1472rpo
A small Ukrainian crew disguised as a pleasure boat cruise was behind the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
Wow I really botched that headline.
Luckily you can change it on Lemmy
Thanks. I wasn’t able to through Sync so I assumed I couldn’t.
