Overview

• The UK has allocated £554,000 to the Alan Turing Institute, with Icelandic backing, to develop AI systems for detecting hostile Russian activity beneath Arctic ice.
• Sanctions on the Vengery tug have stranded Russia’s floating repair dock in the Mediterranean and disrupted maintenance of its icebreaker fleet.
• The Royal Navy is set to deploy AI capabilities to track movements of Russian submarines under Arctic waters.
• Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s visits to Norway and Iceland secured enhanced joint patrol cooperation to protect vital undersea infrastructure.
• Ongoing UK sanctions have impeded upkeep of Russia’s nuclear icebreakers, hampering routes used by the “shadow fleet” that helps fund Moscow’s war in Ukraine.