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THE IRISH DEFENCE Forces along with French, British and US naval forces have begun monitoring the movements of Russian ships en route to an exercise off the south coast.
Sources have confirmed to The Journal that an Irish Air Corps aircraft was patrolling south of Cork yesterday.
The Russians have decided to transit through the English channel and will have to cross the Irish Exclusive Economic Zone to get to the new location for their naval drills.
It is understood the Casa maritime patrol aircraft had been out over seas where the Russian vessels are expected to cross while a PC12 surveillance aircraft was also spotted in Cork Airport.
Sources have said an Irish navy ship departed in recent days from Cork Harbour and is on patrol but it is not known where the vessel is at present or if her crew are tasked with monitoring the ships.
Yesterday a French naval ship followed two Russian naval ships down from the North Sea and through the English Channel.
A Royal Navy warship and US destroyer have begun monitoring two Russian naval vessels as they transit through the English Channel.
The French military said on Monday that it had monitored two Russian ships, the Soobrazitelniy and the Stoykiy, and had now handed over the responsibility to HMS Argyle, a Type 23 frigate, and the US Navy’s USS Roosevelt.
#Atlantique | Le 30/01, le patrouilleur de haute-mer commandant Blaison a accompagné 2 frégates 🇷🇺 la Soobrazitelniy et la Stoykiy dans les approches 🇫🇷. Il a ensuite passé le relais à la frégate 🇬🇧 Argyll et au destroyer 🇺🇸 Roosevelt.@MarineNationale @RoyalNavy @USNavy pic.twitter.com/b7b3lB7T7f
— Armée française - Opérations militaires (@EtatMajorFR) February 1, 2022
A spokesperson for the British Ministry of Defence described the tasking as a “normal response”, adding: “As part of a unified response with our allies, the Royal Navy monitor the presence of Russian naval ships as they transit through the English Channel.”
It is understood the Russian ships are currently off the English and French coasts.
Tass, Russia’s state news agency, reported on January 24 that the two Russian vessels had left Kaliningrad to conduct “combat exercises”.
There has also been a large number of flights by British RAF and US aircraft in recent days.
On Monday The Journal reported that the Russian Navy had released details of its drills off the coast of Norway in recent days as they simulated submarine hunting with ships and aircraft.
The ships from the Russian Northern Fleet are suspected to be the vessels destined for naval drills in the Atlantic off the coast of Ireland.
A Russian oil tanker, the Vyasma, thought to be supplying the vessels with fuel, is in the English Channel off Portsmouth this morning, according to tracking data.
She had journeyed from the exercise location off Norway and headed south through the North Sea, entering the busy shipping route at the English Channel overnight.
Yury Filatov, the Russian Ambassador in Dublin, is expected before the Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs later today.
With reporting from Press Association.
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Unnecessary hysterics, we all know everything is done on pen and paper in this country, that’s why we have schoolteachers as ministers, won’t affect us for another 50years probably
@Stevie Doran: how about the new PPS card that’s not mandatory but obligatory even to make a tax query? All of the information will be kept in America because there’s less protection there? Sounds legit!
@Stevie Doran: I thought we had politicians as ministers. I worked in a bar once when I was in college and have never do so since, am I still a barman?
@Stevie Doran: at least if someone gets the details for €40 you’d know what it says! Be more efficient than the HSE anyway! Plus as Stevie said f all is digital here so we’ll be grand
@Deborah Behan: that’s a lie Deborah. The data is not being stored in the US.
@Deborah Behan: “All of the information will be kept in America”
That’s about the tenth time you have written that, and it has been false every time. How many times do you need to be told?
All your Twitter data is stored in America and you don’t seem to have a problem with that.
@Stevie Doran: The Revenue have ROS, The Gards have PULSE, Social Welfare and Healthcare are similarly digitised. A flippant facetious attitude isn’t going to protect us from cyber attacks.
@Patrick Kearns: Such ignorance on how data is stored and accessed. Take Pulse for example the minute records are being looked up had a high rate the connection is terminated and locked. Not just speed but volume. That is after getting through the security measures which you do either.
The amount of monitoring on traffic on such services is huge. Imagine you have a private road and suddenly you see 1000 trucks on it and you can simply block the road, that is what you do. Or you see a car using it way more than anybody else you stop the car and then find out what they are at.
@Gary: Dail bar?
The one in the Dáil? ;-)
@Deborah Behan: Re your last point: that can’t be done under the new European data protection legislation GDPR, unless they storage company agree to abide by European regulations. So this will either be illegal or the storage company have agree to adhere to forthcoming EU rules. I guess it is the latter.
Roll out the usual suspects from State and semi State bodies assuring us that this simply could not happen in Ireland because we are smarter than smart in protecting our ‘systems’.
@John Campbell: nope calling bull, no government takes lightly the threat of cybercrime anywhere. All they or anyone else can do is try to react quickly to any new threat when it occurs.
Even countries with far far greater resources than Ireland cannot mitigate the risk. You’re barking up the wrong tree if you’re blaming governments for cybercrime.
Cybersecurity/Cybercrime is a self fulfilling prophecy. It’s a small community driving wealth on both sides of the equation…..
Why are medical records so valuable?
@Christy McCarthy: They like to know which viruses your infected with, so they can find a backdoor.
Morning all. Good weekend?
Im in bits..thats for free
It is no cyber-criminals or darkweb looking for our personal data. It is multibillion international companies – insurance brokers, banks or shops who pay for that. Hackers are only middlemen. Why not to point real criminals here ??
Start using blockchain tech
40 euros eh? Hmm new dryer, would i get 10 takers. Who do I talk to?
The password is mam and dads house name or 1956
That all 40 euro? tight B#stards on the dark web
American Social security are not exactly difficult to get.
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