Event 667

{
  "border_violation_countries": [
    "FI",
    "EE",
    "LV",
    "LT",
    "PL",
    "BSR"
  ],
  "category": "Espionage",
  "confidence": "Low",
  "continuous_since": "2022-02-24T12:00:00Z",
  "continuous_summary": "Hybrid operations and threats by Russia have increased in frequency and severity since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.",
  "countries": [
    "Russia",
    "Ukraine",
    "United Kingdom",
    "United States of America",
    "Germany"
  ],
  "country": "Russia",
  "defense_prep": {},
  "description": "The article describes an escalation involving Russia's response to Ukraine using Western-supplied long-range missiles, with Putin asserting his right to retaliate against the UK and US, and details a pattern of hybrid operations including espionage, sabotage, and maritime signals.",
  "event_time_utc": "2024-11-25T12:00:00Z",
  "evidence": [
    "Putin publicly claimed the right to attack UK/US after their missiles were used by Kyiv.",
    "Actions include cyber-attacks, sabotage, targeted killings, and persistent maritime reconnaissance by Russian state assets.",
    "Russian ship Yantar was observed in UK waters in November 2024 as part of intelligence operations.",
    "Previously attributed assassinations (e.g., Berlin 2019) and recent expulsions cited as part of a continuous hybrid warfare effort."
  ],
  "evidence_quotes": [
    "After Kyiv used Storm Shadow missiles, Russia’s leader asserted his ‘right’ to attack the UK and US.",
    "President Putin announces an attack on Dnipro, Ukraine, last Thursday, in response to strikes on Russia that used US and British long-range missiles.",
    "the Yantar, a Russian reconnaissance ship, seen in UK waters this month.",
    "Russia’s shadow war encompasses cyber-attacks, assassinations, sabotage (‘greyzone’ warfare), border provocations, disinformation and espionage.",
    "the murder in Berlin in 2019 of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Chechen dissident, for which a Russian agent was convicted.",
    "MI5 warned this week that more than 100 Russian spies have been expelled from Europe since the Ukraine invasion began."
  ],
  "evidence_urls": [
    "https://theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/23/the-ukraine-missile-crisis-putins-shadow-war-against-the-west-finally-breaks-cover"
  ],
  "extra": {
    "category_raw": "Spying - Underwater Infrastructure Mapping",
    "extra": {
      "extra": {
        "extra": {
          "evidence": [
            "Putin publicly claimed the right to attack UK/US after their missiles were used by Kyiv.",
            "Actions include cyber-attacks, sabotage, targeted killings, and persistent maritime reconnaissance by Russian state assets.",
            "Russian ship Yantar was observed in UK waters in November 2024 as part of intelligence operations.",
            "Previously attributed assassinations (e.g., Berlin 2019) and recent expulsions cited as part of a continuous hybrid warfare effort."
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "follow_up_by_country": [
    {
      "country": "United Kingdom",
      "notes": "MI5 publicized expulsions of Russian spies.",
      "status": "Official Statement"
    },
    {
      "country": "Germany",
      "notes": "Conviction of Russian agent for Berlin assassination.",
      "status": "Arrest/Detention"
    }
  ],
  "headline": "The Ukraine missile crisis: Putin’s shadow war against the west finally breaks cover",
  "is_continuous": true,
  "media_assets": [
    {
      "description": "Screenshot capture",
      "type": "screenshot",
      "url": "/media/event_667_1763934403_d7b18521.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "notes": "??Russia used fishing vessels to spy on cables, pipelines, windfarms across Baltic. Long-term mapping of targets for future sabotage.",
  "schema_version": "v1",
  "screenshot_count": 1,
  "sources": [
    "https://theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/23/the-ukraine-missile-crisis-putins-shadow-war-against-the-west-finally-breaks-cover"
  ],
  "summary_short": "Russia escalates hybrid aggression after Ukraine's use of Western missiles, threatening UK and US, with ongoing operations including espionage, sabotage, and maritime reconnaissance.",
  "url": "https://theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/23/the-ukraine-missile-crisis-putins-shadow-war-against-the-west-finally-breaks-cover"
}

{
  "5th Column of Russians Inside (which countries)": "",
  "Attack Type": "Spying - underwater infrastructure mapping",
  "Borders Including Sea, Air,  Violation or Sabotage (which countries)": "FI EE LV LT PL BSR",
  "Continuous? (e.g. Jammers)": "",
  "Country (FI;EE;LV;LT;PL;BSR;Air)\nSeparated by Semicolon": "BSR",
  "Date": "25-Nov-24",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "",
  "Follow-Up Link?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Follow-Up NOTES": "",
  "Follow-Up incl. Investigation, Prosecution?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Latitude, Longitude (WGS84, Decimal Degrees)": "",
  "NOTES": "??Russia used fishing vessels to spy on cables, pipelines, windfarms across Baltic. Long-term mapping of targets for future sabotage. ",
  "Political Disruptions w/ Laws to Favor Kremlin (which countries)": "",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "??Russia used fishing vessels to spy on cables, pipelines, windfarms across Baltic. Nordic intel investigation. ",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "https://theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/23/the-ukraine-missile-crisis-putins-shadow-war-against-the-west-finally-breaks-cover",
  "Screen Snapshot": "",
  "Screen Snapshots": "",
  "Type Dropdown": "",
  "Where?\n(Air, Land, Sea)": ""
}