Russian spy sensors found hidden in UK waters

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/06/russian-spy-sensors-hidden-uk-waters/

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  1. **From The Telegraph:**

    Russian sensors suspected of trying to spy on British nuclear submarines are reported to have been found hidden in the seas around the UK.

    The British military made the discovery after a number of them washed ashore and were located by the Royal Navy. They are being seen as a potential threat to national security.

    The situation has not previously been made public but it has been reported in The Sunday Times that Moscow was looking to try and collect intelligence on the UK’s four Vanguard submarines, which carry nuclear missiles.

    At least one of the submarines is at sea as part of Britain’s continuous at-sea deterrent.

    Moscow has a fleet of specialist submarines which are reported to be better equipped than Britain and its Nato allies in terms of both seabed warfare and espionage.

    Throughout the conflict with Ukraine, Russia has been stepping up surveillance and sabotage of underwater internet connections, energy pipelines and military cables, which are key to the West.

    In 15 months, there have been at least 11 internet cables that have suffered damage in the Baltic Sea, partly because anchors have been dragged across the seabed by ships.

    “You really need to keep the [engine] power on to drag, so it is a deliberate act,” a defence insider said.

    Nordic Warden, a reaction system that uses AI to track the whereabouts of the Russian shadow fleet, was triggered by the UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force when a cable between Estonia and Finland was damaged in December.

    A senior serving British military figure added: “There should be no doubt, there is a war raging in the Atlantic. This is a game of cat and mouse that has continued since the ending of the Cold War, and is now heating up again. We are seeing phenomenal amounts of Russian activity.”

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  2. rUzZiA iS eAgEr fOr pEaCe tHeY waNnA sTOp tHe dEatH

  3. Turns out the cold war never actually ended. That was only in the mind of the west.

  4. Must’ve accidentally dropped them on their way to cutting another undersea telecommunications cable.

  5. Ah Russia, the gift that keeps on giving that nobody wants

  6. Never trust a russian.

    They are all thieves and liars, and have zero dignity, self respect or honour.

    The absolute garbage dump of humanity.

  8. 150 years ago, this would’ve been met with a declaration of war

  9. well here in the US they made landfall; even bought an election.

  11. In the past when you discovered an enemy secret you’d use it to fuck with them

  12. I’d make a “find a needle in haystack”-remark, but doing that is considerably easier than what they have pulled off here.

  13. The fact that they washed ashore just means that the US spy sensors have better fixation.

  14. I’m laying a cable right now, where are the russian submarines to observe?

  16. Fucking Russia…the people are fine, the assholes who govern it (much like the US now) ought to be jailed!

  17. Seem like a waste of money: they could simply ask Krasnov to give them the location of any allied ship

  18. No idea why we don’t just sink any ship with engine on while anchor out. Power is the only language those idiots understand.

  21. Honestly the whole of Europe and America need to block Russian access to the North Sea. F Russia

  23. These two countries have been watching each other for decades, especially with submarines – this is not news.

  24. When Putin strategically manages to put a puppet from Russia into the power of the United States, I think it is evident who won the war.

    In European terms Putin tries to put other puppets in power as in Spain through VOX, in France with the Marine le Pen , in Hungary with Orban, in Portugal with the party CHEGA of André Ventura, in Germany with Afd or other important countries as Brazil with Bolsonaro, in Argentina with Milei and in Germany with Afd party or even the russian role with the Brexit.

    Russia is winning the whole war and it is important that the citizens of the that democratic societies are at the serious risk of extinction.

  28. To be fair we are almost certainly doing the same thing.

    Only perhaps tying them down a bit better so they don’t wash up on a Black Sea beach.

  29. When are we actually gonna start taking gloves off? We ve had enough of government just hiding shit under the rug. Let’s throw down send army to Ukraine, expel all the Russian dirt and so on.

  30. Boohoo the Russians have spies ailing the UK. What about UK spies in Russia? That’s ok? Nothing to see here boys. Just the usual

  31. I feel like they drag anchor to cut all these cables, and occasionally while the connection is down they have a team cut a different part of the cable far away and install a junction box with prisms. Possibly where it intersects with another cable controlled by a nation friendly to Russia.

    Probably conspiracy theory, but that does sound like 21st century spycraft.

    TLS all the things.

  32. I like to think Europe is doing spy stuff and they’re just not as shit as it.

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