Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas says Russia is conducting a “shadow war” against the West. As the war in Ukraine takes a turn in Russia’s favor, borders are being bolstered in the front-line Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, as well as in Finland and Poland.
Estonia n Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, center, speaks to Brig. Charles Harris, commander of British forces in Estonia , left, and Ross Allen, British ambassador to Estonia , at an undisclosed location in Estonia on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Kallas was visiting the country’s largest defense exercises. Estonia n Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and British Ambassador to Estonia Ross Allen, left, fly back together from NATO exercises in southern Estonia , Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Both the U.K.
Because many Russian intelligence operatives already are sanctioned, Western officials and experts say the Kremlin is shifting tactics, hiring others for hybrid operations — nonmilitary strategies including cyberattacks, election interference and disinformation, and attacksWith crucial elections in the West, officials say they believe the tempo of such activities will only increase, and some want tougher countermeasures.
It is “not very plausible” that there’s such a large pool of agents in Estonia that makes them easier to catch, said Kusti Salm, permanent secretary at Estonia’s Defense Ministry, in an interview with AP, implying that other countries could work harder at it. That could lead to unintended deaths and injuries, Estonian officials and security experts say, citing a trend of Russia is outsourcing attacks to locals, sometimes recruited relatively cheaply on video gaming platforms and social media. That makes it harder to identify connections between attacks or to trace them back to Russia.
Although Russia has been blamed for attacks in Europe for decades, Estonian officials and security experts indicated there’s no collective mechanism for dealing with them, and suggested the EU do more.
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