Vladimir Putin says the world’s energy infrastructure is at risk
Vladimir Putin says the world’s energy infrastructure is “at risk”
Vladimir Putin says the world’s energy infrastructure is “at risk”He would know. And internet infrastructure is vulnerable tooOn October 12th Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, gave an ominous warning. Energy infrastructure around the world was now “at risk”, he said. Mr Putin’s warning came a month after explosions tore through Nord Stream 1 and 2, a pair of gas pipelines running from Russia to Europe under the Baltic Sea. The pipes were not in use at the time. But the ruptures left plumes of methane bubbling to the surface for days. This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline “Sabotage at sea”From the October 22nd 2022 editionDiscover stories from this section and more in the list of contentsExplore the edition