Vladimir Putin 'spying on UK with HUNDREDS of fishing trawlers' with Britain at risk 'day one' of Nato conflict

Vladimir Putin has deployed fishing trawlers to spy on British critical undersea cables.More than 500 incidents of Russian civilian vessels hovering above fibre-optic communications cables which link Britain's economy to the wider world.The scale of movement suggests the Kremlin is surveilling the seabed to map the precise locations of cables that could be attacked in a future Nato conflict.If Russia were to cut the UK's cables, disruption could hit banks, hospitals, transport and mobile phone networks. TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say General Sir Gwyn Jenkins previously revealed Moscow was "probing, testing and mapping" the seabed at a scale not seen since the Cold War.He warned that on the first day of a potential future conflict,...

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