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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Hamish Morrison

Russia may have been behind Shetland internet shutdown, Foreign Secretary says

THE Foreign Secretary has not ruled out the possibility Russia was behind damage to an undersea cable which left much of the Shetland Islands severed from the internet and phone access.

Speaking to the Sunday Mail, James Cleverly said he was not able to confirm the cause of the outage but did not refute the chance Vladimir Putin’s forces could have been behind it.

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