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Arctic leaders warn of growing risk of hybrid warfare in the far north

Remote Faroe Islands are in talks to add an extra undersea internet cable to safeguard communications from sabotage

Arctic leaders have warned that the threat of hybrid warfare by Russia and others is moving from the Baltic Sea to the far north, including sabotage of undersea internet cables.

Denmark and Greenland plan to build a new data cable between them, and the remote Faroe Islands are in talks to have the line routed through their archipelago to bolster their resilience against potential attacks, according to the prime minister of the islands.

“When you are an island in the middle of the north Atlantic, you are vulnerable,” Aksel Johannesen said. ‘‘We have two telecommunications cables today, and if both are attacked at the same time we do not have any connection with the world.”

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