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Multiple reports of damaged telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea have raised alarm in recent months.

With overseas travel grinding to a halt, Andy left his job as a coach driver later that year and retrained as a telecommunications engineer.

Eventually, critical systems in the UK in finance, telecommunications, energy, utilities and national security could switch over – though that would take longer.

The release of the scam workers started more than two weeks ago after Thailand, under pressure from China and some of its own politicians, cut power and telecommunications links to the compounds on the border.

Locals tell me that most of the power stations, refineries, and even telecommunications antennas have been destroyed by Turkish air strikes over the past two years.