Russians may have been mapping cables off Ireland since 2014, expert claims
Russian decision to initially carry out a navy exercise within Ireland's Exclusive Economic Zone was deliberately done to show their military ability to reach out anywhere and find weak spots in Western Europe, one of which certainly is the undersea cables, expert in international studies believes.
The Russians may first have started mapping and monitoring the vitally important transatlantic fibre optic cables off the Irish coast as early as 2014, according to an expert in international studies.
Dr Edward Burke, associate professor of International Studies at the University of Nottingham, said the British believe that some Russian 'Bear' bombers have specialist communications systems which allow them keep in touch with their nuclear submarines while they are underwater and they may have been working in tandem mapping out the cables.
