The Russian Embassy in Britain dismissed a claim by British Defence Secretary John Healey about Russian submarine activity in the North Atlantic as neither credible nor verifiable. Healey earlier said that Britain and Norway had led a month-long operation to track Russian submarines near key undersea cables and pipelines in the North Atlantic.

 

The embassy said that Russia does not threaten undersea infrastructure critical to Britain, nor does it use aggressive rhetoric on the issue, noting that the responsibility for the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines rested with Western countries.