Brits are being warned to prepare three-day survival kits including tins of beans, medicine and Swiss Army Knives after Mad Vlad was caught snooping around our energy pipeline
Brits have been warned to prepare a ‘72-hour survival kit‘ over fears Mad Vlad is planning to attack the country’s most important gas pipeline — just like they did to Germany’s Nord Stream in 2022.
The UK gets nearly 40% of its gas from Norway and is imported into the country through a giant 700-mile pipeline called the Langeled. The monster pipe runs from the Nyhamna gas processing plant on the Norwegian island of Gossa to the Easington gas terminal in County Durham.
A Russian spy ship called the Yantar was caught snooping around the North Sea in recent months, eyeing up the UK’s underwater energy infrastructure.
The Yantar is reported to be able to send a submarine 20,000ft underwater and is packed with explosives to blow up pipelines.
A source said: “We know that the Russians are active in the North Sea and have the power to cripple our energy links.
“We need to become much more self-sufficient, and quickly. And households should be ready for all eventualities.”
EU security chiefs have already advised EU countries to pack a three-day survival kit in the event that Russia attacks their energy systems. Now, Brits are being urged to do the same thing, reports Mail.
The survival kit should include water, non-perishable food like tins of beans and Spam, medicines, a battery-powered radio, a torch, identity documents and a Swiss Army knife.
As the UK continues to head towards Net Zero, it is becoming less self-sufficient (due to closing down home-grown power plants) and more reliant on energy from other countries.
There have been numerous occasions of late where the UK has shown this worrying reliance. One of which was during last winter, when blackouts were reportedly due. A high-voltage cable bringing electricity in from Denmark had to be switched on early due to prevent them.
One source said: “We are now massively dependent on electricity imports and we are going to become more dependent on those imports.
“The director general of MI5 has warned about GRU (Russia’s military intelligence service) tactics in Western countries, including sabotage or arson. Energy infrastructure is a sitting duck.”
Dr Sidharth Kaushal, senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a defence thinktank, said: “Energy in general and gas in particular is an area of acute concern.
“I would point to the very heavy reliance on the Langeled pipeline from Norway as being essentially a single point of failure within the system.”
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