An alliance of northern European nations pledged Tuesday to do more to protect critical undersea and offshore infrastructure in the face of shared challenges, including what they alleged was Russian ships conducting mapping that indicated “preparations for possible disruption and, at worst, sabotage.”
The statement was issued after defense ministers from the British-led Joint Expeditionary Force, a military alliance of northern European nations, met in Amsterdam to discuss Russia's war in Ukraine. Worries that energy and communications infrastructure outside Ukraine might be targeted have soared since an apparent attack on two Baltic Sea gas pipelines in September.
