The goal of NATO's operations is to stop a suspected vessel within an hour, he says.
Time is crucial, the faster we can get the information, the more we can do. What we saw in the beginning when a ship dropped its anchor for 17 hours, that was the explanation for why they could have cut three communication cables and a pipeline. If we had known it within half an hour, we could have stopped it, says Niels Markussen to the radio at the Artic Frontiers conference in Tromsø.
In January, a NATO operation was launched to better monitor and deter sabotage in the Baltic Sea. But suspected sabotage is difficult to prove.
We're looking a lot at ships, but it can also be about individual people behind it, says Niels Markussen.
