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The Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine, as seen on September 4, 2024. Photo: Fredrik Dahl / IAEA Ukrainian company Energoatom is condemning any attempt to legitimise Russian occupation of its Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (NPP). The comment follows remarks by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director-general Rafael Grossi recently that the plant could return to…
The Royal Danish Navy frigate Triton passes an iceberg around Greenland in 2023. Photo: NATO NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says Europe’s defence industry is playing catch-up to Russia in a dangerous new age of global competition. His concerns were spelt out during a recent visit to Slovakia to meet with President Peter Pellegrini, talk to…
The bus-sized Herne can lie on the seabed for nearly a year and can switch mission payloads. Picture: BAE Systems For two weeks in December, senior naval officers from 10 countries visited the English South Coast to watch the UK’s robot submersible Herne put through its paces. Herne is a robot submersible about the size…
The HMS Somerset (foreground) tracks the Yantar in the English Channel recently. Photo: UK MoD 2025 A suspected Russian spy ship returned to the English Channel this week after it was warned off last year by a British submarine for lingering near underseas cables in UK waters. The Yantar was warned off in November after…
The HMS Somerset (right) watches two Russian naval vessels sail past the British Isles on December 27, 2024. A Russian force was encountered in the North Sea and watched as it passed through the Dover Strait into the English Channel. Photo: UK MoD. A UK-led detection system is tracking Russia’s shadow oil tanker fleet in…
A Finnish patrol vessel. The coast guard has seized an oil tanker and is interviewing the crew. Photo: Finnish Border Guard NATO is to boost its military presence in the Baltic Sea to protect undersea cables after Finland seized a ship suspected of damaging cables linking Finland and Estonia on December 25. A NATO statement…
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (right) with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda in Brussels. Lithuania is to spend up to 3.5 percent of its GDP on defence and also agreed to build an artillery shell manufacturing factory. Photo: NATO EUROPE needs to spend a lot more than 2 per cent of its GDP on defence, NATO…
Ukrainian crews training on Leopard 2 tanks in Zagan, Poland. Photo: NATO EUROPE needs to adopt a wartime mindset — again, NATO secretary-general Mark Rutte says. He was speaking at a conference organised by the Carnegie Europe think-tank in Brussels, home to NATO last week (Thursday local time). “The security situation does not look good. It’s…
Ukrainian troops lead an IAEA delegation to a Russian checkpoint near the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant in September. Photo: Fredrik Dahl / IAEA Continuing Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy grid is starting to affect the safety of nuclear power plants, the UN nuclear watchdog says. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi’s warnings follows…
Underseas cables linking North America and Europe are part of a network of subsea cables. Photo © US Navy / Joshua Knolla NATO military and civilian experts have met in Brussels today to ramp up co-operation in responding to attacks on undersea cables. A NATO statement says the experts were joined by industry representatives, including…