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Headline: In early 2025, Russia escalated a covert war campaign against Europe involving sabotage, assassination, and infrastructure attacks.
Short Summary: Over the past three years, Russia has conducted an increasingly brazen campaign of sabotage and subversion targeting European allies of Ukraine. In 2024, Moscow significantly escalated tactics by turning to assassination attempts, attacks on water facilities, and targeting civil aviation. In early January 2025, Russian sabotage in the Baltic Sea was reported as part of military operations aimed at provoking NATO and expanding Russian control. Events such as cutting undersea cables have drawn media attention, but no comprehensive assessment of the full scope of Russia's covert actions against Europe has been made. This activity signals a troubling new phase in the Kremlin’s tactics threatening European lives, underscoring the urgent need for a concerted and assertive European response.
Extended Summary: Over the past three years, Russia has conducted an increasingly brazen campaign of sabotage and subversion targeting European allies of Ukraine. In 2024, Moscow significantly escalated tactics by turning to assassination attempts, attacks on water facilities, and targeting civil aviation. In early January 2025, Russian sabotage in the Baltic Sea was reported as part of military operations aimed at provoking NATO and expanding Russian control. Events such as cutting undersea cables have drawn media attention, but no comprehensive assessment of the full scope of Russia's covert actions against Europe has been made. This activity signals a troubling new phase in the Kremlin’s tactics threatening European lives, underscoring the urgent need for a concerted and assertive European response.
On January 10, 2025, Foreign Policy analysis revealed that Russia has escalated covert operations beyond Ukraine into broader Europe with a range of hostile actions. The campaign includes sabotage, assassinations, disruption of water facilities, and civil aviation attacks across multiple European countries. Russian military sabotage in the Baltic Sea aimed at provoking NATO was identified, alongside systematic but under-assessed covert activities threatening European security and stability. These operations highlight Russia’s willingness to weaken European adversaries and isolate Ukraine from support.
The article explicitly describes Russian covert aggressive actions—sabotage, assassinations, infrastructural attacks—targeting European countries and NATO interests, with named actors and detailed tactics. No defense measures are described in the source.
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