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- The head of Poland’s counterintelligence service, Jarosław Stróżyk, warns that Russian President Vladimir Putin may be ready to attack NATO countries to test Western response.
- He believes that Russia can occupy parts of Estonia or Sweden.
- European intelligence services have warned that Russia is planning acts of sabotage, including attacks on infrastructure.
- NATO countries also express concern about increasing Russian activity on allied territory.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to attack NATO countries to test the Western reaction, warns Jarosław Stróżyk, head of Poland’s counterintelligence service.
He believes that Russia can occupy parts of Estonia or Sweden.
– Putin has certainly already prepared for a mini-operation against one of the Baltic countries, for example to get to Narva, or to occupy one of the Swedish islands, says Stróżyk to the Polish newspaper Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.
– What the West is doing together, to support Ukraine, shows him that if NATO were to be attacked, the response would be even greater, he adds.
He emphasizes that the prediction about Russia’s preparedness is based on assumptions from the intelligence services without the full overall picture.
Intense Combat: – Weakened
– The risk has increased
Last week, the Financial Times reported that European intelligence services have warned European governments that Russia is planning various forms of sabotage actions, such as attacks on infrastructure.
Russia is said to have prepared to carry out bomb attacks and arson, as well as to damage European infrastructure, the intelligence services claim.
Alarm across Europe
– We consider that the risk of state-controlled sabotage actions appears to have increased significantly, said the head of the German security service, Thomas Haldenwang.
He also claimed that Russia appears to be more comfortable conducting operations on European soil “with a high potential for damage”.
On Tuesday 7 May, Vladimir Putin was sworn in as president for the fifth time. Among others, the Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov took part in the inauguration ceremony, after several months of rumors of illness. Reporter: Jostein Sletten / Dagbladet
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Nato worried
NATO countries are also deeply concerned about the increasing Russian activity on allied territory, the alliance said in a statement last week.
– These events are part of an intensifying campaign that Russia continues to carry out across the Euro-Atlantic area, including on the territory of the alliance, the statement said.
Nato singles out the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and the United Kingdom in particular, and points to sabotage, acts of violence, cyber attacks and disinformation campaigns as examples.
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