“They have recce’d [carried out reconnaissance] them, they have known about the cables for years,” said Dr Edward Burke, associate professor of International Studies at the University of Nottingham. He said the positioning of Russian ships over the cables as part of their navy exercise was “a campaign of incremental escalation”, showing they were aware of the vulnerability of the cables and this country’s inability to do anything to prevent them being cut. “Russia realises Ireland’s vulnerability is NATO’s vulnerability,” he said.
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