Russia could deal a terrible blow to the UK and damage the underwater power lines and Internet cables linking the country to the mainland. The corresponding statement was made by an employee of the analytical center Polar Research and Policy Initiative Dwayne Ryan Menezes.
He noted that the UK’s national power grid depends on powerful submarine cables. If they are cut, power outages may occur. And this paralyzes the country, Express reports.
Menezes stressed that these actions could also cause internet outages. In particular, companies, hospitals and universities will stop working, and banks will be forced to refuse to process money transfers.
Now the functioning of Britain depends on the work of about 500 cables with a total length of more than a million kilometers.
Earlier, the British Navy launched an investigation after a visitor to one of the pubs found documents in the toilet with a diagram of the device of the new HMS Anson submarine.
It is specified that the materials were found in an institution in the port city of Barow-in-Furness in the county of Cumbria. The discovered data were educational documents and did not contain classified information.
