2024-05-03
- LETA/AFP/TBT Staff
BRUSSELS – NATO on Thursday condemned Russian “malign activities” on its territory, saying actions like disinformation, sabotage, violence and cyber interference threatened the alliance’s security.
The incidents “are part of an intensifying campaign of activities” Russia is carrying out across the Euro-Atlantic area and NATO allies “express their deep concern over Russia’s hybrid actions, which constitute a threat to allied security”, NATO said in a statement.
Authorities in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Britain have recently investigated and charged people in connection with “hostile state activity”.
NATO said allies would work together to deter and defend against the hybrid actions and that they would remain steadfast in supporting Ukraine as it struggles to fend off Russia’s invasion, now in its third year.
Last month, a 20-year-old British man was charged with masterminding an arson plot against a Ukrainian-linked target in London. Moscow’s ambassador Andrey Kelin dismissed claims of links to Russia as “absurd” and “unfounded”.
In late March, Czech authorities said they had busted a Moscow-financed network that spread Russian propaganda and wielded influence across Europe, including in the European Parliament.
D/C: https://mark3ds.wordpress.com/?s=Baltics
Baltic Times: Tartu airport under Russia’s hybrid attack – Baltic foreign ministers
- 2024-04-29
- LETA/BNS/TBT Staff
TALLINN – The foreign ministers of the Baltic states warn that the GPS signal interference, as a result of which two Finnair flights from the Finnish capital Helsinki to the southern Estonian university town of Tartu were unable to land at Tartu airport last week, is being carried out by Russia and is so dangerous that sooner or later it can cause a plane crash, the regional Tartu Postimees writes.
The foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania told the Financial Times (FT) that GPS jamming across the Baltics has increased in recent weeks. Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said that the GPS jamming at Tartu airport is a Russian hybrid attack.
“We consider what is happening with GPS as part of Russia’s hostile activities, and we will definitely discuss it with our allies. Such actions are a hybrid attack and are a threat to our people and security, and we will not tolerate them,” Tsahkna told the Financial Times.
“If someone turns off your headlights while you’re driving at night, it gets dangerous. Things in the Baltic region near Russian borders are now getting too dangerous to ignore,” Gabrielius Landsbergis, the foreign minister of Lithuania, told the Financial Times.
Roman Kulikov, operations manager at Tartu airport, said that the Finnair flight that took off from Helsinki on the night between Sunday and Monday landed in Tartu at 1:04 a.m. safely and without problems.
D/C: And do not forget the Balkans .. Russian interference and spying everywhere especially in Europe right now.
Arab News: Keep an eye on the Balkans: It’s the world’s next flash point
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2504411
However, about 1,000 kilometers to the southwest of the front lines in Ukraine, another European security crisis is brewing
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