UK Defence Minister John Healey announced that the country deployed military vessels to safeguard cables and pipelines from potential attacks by Russian submarines, which spent over a month operating in and around British waters earlier this year.

NATO will deploy approximately 10 ships to protect critical underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea by the end of the week, Finnish newspaper Yle reported on Tuesday, News.az reports citing Politico.

Russia on Wednesday denied claims it was responsible for damage to two fiber-optic telecommunication cables in the Baltic Sea over the weekend, News.az reports citing Deutsche Welle.

Kazakh and Azerbaijani operators will invest more than $50 million in laying fiber optic cables along the bottom of the Caspian Sea, News.Az reports citing the Times of Central Asia.