Posted on 10/22/2022 2:13:05 PM PDT by libh8er
THE mystery over severed undersea power cables off Shetland deepened tonight after it emerged a Russian 'research ship' was clocked in the area.
Engineers battled to restore internet and phone communications after islanders were completely cut off from the mainland on Thursday.
New data now shows the research ship Akademik Boris Petrov travelled through the Shetland-Orkney Gap hours later.
The Dutch warship HNLMS Tromp later moved to a position North East of the Isle of Lewis to intercept and escort it away from UK waters.
Akademik Boris Petrov has now carried on its journey to Brazil.
The ship originally left Kaliningrad on October 17 for its expedition. Its original route was set to see it go through the English Channel into the Atlantic.
But after it left Skagerrak it changed route and past vital underwater infrastructure in the North Sea. Its original route had been through the English Channel and into the Atlantic.
It was also expected to go through sensitive waters off Faslane Naval base where Britain's nuclear-submarine is based, according to the Auxiliary Shipping Forecast blog.
The route was also meant to past through waters off north west Ireland where critical transatlantic infrastructure is kept.
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No.
Does he know how to scuba dive?
And he’s probably too busy anyway.
probably
Russia/the USSR has a long history of dirty tricks
It was a USO
This time, full nuclear war, baby!
*JFK was not the "hero who stood up to Krushchev." JFK agreed to take our already-placed nuclear Jupiter missiles out of Turkey and Italy, if Russia took its new missiles out of Cuba....which were put there as a response to OUR missiles in Turkey and Italy....
But by all means, let's have a full nuclear war over the 237th movement of the border between Russia and The Ukraine (meaning The Borderland), which was never in history an independent nation before 1991, and the breakup of the USSR.
I mean, if we're going to have a nuclear war, let's have it over something REALLY critical like that.
Busy guy. Must have flown out to the site and then flown straight back to Moscow.
Hmmm…
“…Research vessel Akademik Boris Petrov passed through the Shetland-Orkney Gap on the afternoon of October 21, a day after the southern submarine cable between the island and the mainland was severed and the power went out….”
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So, an underseas cable is supposedly damaged and A DAY LATER a Russian research vessel sails through the area. And, ipso facto, the Russians must have done it. Do you ‘RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA’ much?
Bkmk
In most cases damage to undersea cables is caused by fishing trawlers. There are hundreds of ships of all nations in the North Sea. Many, many are fishing trawlers.
The Russians are coming after My Little Pony.
If so, the Brits deserve it — they’ve all but declared war on Russia.
The West blew up the Nordstream pipeline, can’t get dirtier than that. England, Germany and the EU citizens are paying a huge price.
Th Democrats Russia Derangement Syndrome appears to have no cure.
Maybe it was aliens. Illegal ones.
“Russia/the USSR has a long history of dirty tricks”
Are you aware of something that used to be called the ‘British Empire’? Perfidious Albion?
The US has a history too. In fact they could done this in order to see it blamed on Russia. Not saying they did. But things are so corrupt now that there is no way to know.
I bet he used a pod of his trained porpoises to swim out there, and chew through the cables for him. Whose going to suspect those cute, adorable critters?
Most likely Russia blew up Nordstream. They wanted to remove their ability to blackmail Europe and make a killing selling gas this winter. By blowing it up the have also lost tremendous power to pressure Europe in their support of Ukraine. Yep, Russia did it./s
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