**NATO allies disrupted a covert Russian undersea operation near Norway’s Svalbard archipelago this spring, according to two Western officials cited by** [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/nato-allies-foil-russian-subsea-cable-sabotage-plot-2026-09-10/).

Russia’s secretive GUGI deep-sea warfare directorate allegedly used submarines and submersibles to rehearse deploying technology designed to disable critical seabed cables without leaving clear evidence of attribution. 

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