“This is a new weapon of war”: how Europe reacts to Russian sabotage

Russian spies feel comfortable in Europe/Collage 24 Channel

A wave of sabotage has recently swept across Europe. Intelligence agencies warn: all the leads lead to Russia, and this is just the beginning. The Russians will try to destabilize the continent.

In February, British experts suggested that Russia was preparing for war with NATO through an entire spy network. Enemy intelligence officers are working actively and effectively.

European intelligence services are preparing to fight the Russians

Security services across Europe are on alert for potential new weapons of Russian warfare – arson and sabotage – after a series of mysterious fires and attacks on infrastructure in the Baltics, Germany and the UK, it said article.

Donald Tusk suggested that the fire at IKEA in Vilnius could be the work of a foreign saboteur. Investigators have already said that Russia may be involved in an arson in east London, a fire that destroyed the largest shopping center in Poland, an attempted sabotage in Bavaria in Germany and anti-Semitic graffiti in Paris.

There is no evidence yet that these incidents were coordinated. But there are good reasons to believe that this may be an attempt by Moscow to destabilize the West.

Why is there no direct evidence that sabotage in Europe Russia is to blame

In the era of social networks, vandals can be hired by paying them a few hundred euros or using cryptocurrency. Therefore, it is difficult to establish connections between random people on the Internet and Russian spies directly.

Jens Stoltenberg reported that NATO is seeing an increase in Russian intelligence activity.

Europe is vulnerable to Russian sabotage, so the issue was considered at a high level

During the summit in Brussels, the foreign and defense ministers raised this issue. They pointed out: Europe is vulnerable. There is sabotage taking place there, which was organized, financed and carried out by Russian puppets.

Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren stated that Russia is trying to intimidate NATO countries. She emphasized that the Soviet Union acted in a similar way.

Yes, we are vulnerable. I think we are all vulnerable. We have vital infrastructure. We have seabed infrastructure, we have electricity, we have water, we are vulnerable to cyber attacks. We see now in several European countries that Russia is trying to destabilize us and also intimidate us,” she said.

Russia is becoming more aggressive

Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur said that his country had already become a victim of Russian sabotage in February.

” They (Russians – Channel 24) carried out similar operations in Estonia. They hired 10 people to attack the car of the Minister of Internal Affairs and the car of a journalist. This is normal behavior of Russia. We are sorry to say this, but we must understand that ,” he detailed.

Then six were arrested people, among whom were Russian citizens and persons with dual Russian-Estonian citizenship.

In addition, the Russians resort to cyber attacks and disinformation campaigns. In different countries, citizens were urged to be vigilant, because the threat has not disappeared.