"The UK's national power grid depends on powerful submarine cables... as a result of sabotage, there will be power outages that will paralyze the country," he said in a comment to The Daily Express.
According to the interlocutor of the publication, such a blow can lead to failures with the Internet, as a result of which universities, medical institutions and various enterprises will not be able to work. Menezes added that at the moment the functioning of the state as a whole depends on the correct operation of cables with a total length of more than 1 million km.
Earlier, Bloomberg wrote that the UK authorities are preparing a plan for emergency power supply in the kingdom in case of the "worst-case scenario", including the possibility of rationing the supply of electricity to consumers.
In August, the UK began importing liquefied natural gas from Australia amid the energy crisis in European countries.