UK sends ship for pipeline protection in North Sea

Britain has sent a Royal Navy ship to patrol the North Sea, as Western allies try to increase protection for undersea pipelines and cables after blasts ruptured two natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, the country’s defense ministry said, Report informs, referring to The Washington Post.

“A Royal Navy frigate is in the North Sea, working with the Norwegian Navy to reassure those working near the gas pipelines,” the British Defense Ministry wrote on Twitter.