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@HelsinkiComm
Sep 23, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
For years, Russia has used hybrid warfare tactics to disrupt governance, sow division, and undermine physical & economic security across NATO.

These attacks have become commonplace, but they must be treated as part of a shadow war 🇷🇺 is waging against the democratic world.
🧵1/7 Image
In June, Russian agents set fire to a German defense manufacturer's metal factory.

At the time of the attack, a German politician said, "It has long been clear that Russia is waging a hybrid war against European countries, including Germany." 2/7
politico.eu/article/russia…
US intelligence uncovered a Russian plot to assassinate European defense industry executives supporting Ukraine.

A NATO official commented, "...we're seeing a campaign of covert sabotage activities from Russia that have strategic consequences." 3/7
edition.cnn.com/2024/07/11/pol…
In April, hacktivists associated with the Cyber Army of Russia targeted water systems in the US, Poland, and France in a series of attacks that threatened water supply and wastewater management. 4/7
axios.com/2024/04/17/rus…
This month, local security forces uncovered a Russian plot to train and pay operatives to perpetrate a coup in Armenia.

They planned to violently take over the country's elected government and derail its pro-West path. 5/7
politico.eu/article/russia…
Each of these actions must be understood in the context of a Russian strategy to use every means at its disposal to undermine NATO's unity, effectiveness, and security—and to create chaos & instability in democracies wherever possible. 6/7
As we will explore in our hearing tomorrow, while some NATO countries may not want to accept it, Russia is already operating on a war footing against us, and we must redouble our efforts to effectively counter Russian attacks. 7/7
csce.gov/press-releases…

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May 9
Russia is preparing the mass forced removal of over 50,000 Ukrainian children from Russian-occupied territories to “summer camps” across Russia and occupied Ukraine as part of a broader attempt to completely erase Ukrainian identity.🧵1/4
The Institute for the Study of War has reported that these so-called “summer camps” are, in fact, reeducation camps to indoctrinate Ukrainian children to become subservient to the Russian state—against their own homeland. 2/4
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Myths & facts about Russia's war on Ukraine: 🧵 Image
MYTH: NATO expansion provoked Russia's war against Ukraine.

FACT: Russia’s war on Ukraine is a continuation of Russia’s centuries-long policy of treating Ukraine as a vassal state to be subjugated. Image
MYTH: Eastern Ukrainians speak Russian & voted to become part of 🇷🇺, so the war is an issue of self-determination.

FACT: Many Ukrainians speak Russian b/c, during the Russian Empire & Soviet Union, elites promoted 🇷🇺 language & culture & repressed 🇺🇦 & other national identities. Image
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Jan 21
Russia is waging a shadow war on NATO, aiming to destabilize it & deter it from supporting Ukraine's existential fight for freedom.

In her recent piece in @MoscowTimes, @jvcwarlick laid out a blueprint for NATO to approach Russian provocations from a position of strength: 🧵1/5
First, NATO must improve its ability to out-innovate adversaries, ensuring it can prevail in the conflicts of today by countering active measures with enhanced attribution capabilities and strategic investments in its own arsenal of tools and capabilities. 2/5
Second, NATO must adopt a clear doctrine to respond to 🇷🇺 active measures. Finland & Estonia's decisive response to recent suspected attempts by Russia to damage undersea cables sets an example for how NATO should approach such attacks—with decisiveness & coordination. 3/5
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Jan 10
In the month since we published this report, Russia has continued to escalate its shadow war on NATO while new evidence has come to light about previous attacks and destabilization efforts. 1/6 🧵
In December, Finland seized a ship that is part of Russia’s shadow fleet as part of an investigation into Russian attempts to damage undersea cables in the Baltic Sea. Attacks on undersea power cables threaten the civilian energy infrastructure across the Baltics. 2/6
Last week, a member of the Duma openly discussed Russia’s efforts to cut undersea cables serving NATO countries on Russian state television as a means to inflict suffering upon Europeans. 3/6
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Dec 16, 2024
Our recent staff report mapped ~150 examples of Russian active measures on NATO soil since 🇷🇺 launched its full-scale invasion of 🇺🇦 in 4 categories: attacks on critical infrastructure, violence campaigns, weaponized migration, and election interference & disinformation.🧵 1/7 Image
Attacks on critical infrastructure are a means to threaten public safety and undermine trust in essential resources. One fifth of the attacks mapped below are cyber campaigns against hospitals in which hackers hold patient data ransom or disrupt critical hospital services. 2/7 Image
Violence campaigns range from petty vandalism to attempted acts of terrorism. Russia has been accused of recruiting and paying sympathizers from a variety of backgrounds to outsource their destabilization schemes. 3/7
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Dec 13, 2024
Russia’s active measures against NATO countries are calculated efforts to undermine democratic values, sow distrust within free societies, and destabilize the Alliance’s resolved unity.🧵1/6
Russia has executed hybrid campaigns ranging from cyberattacks to attempted assassination and terrorism plots. One-off incidents do not make wars in and of themselves, but the scale and calculated nature of Russian hybrid threats within NATO borders amount to a shadow war. 2/6
To visualize the breadth of the Kremlin’s efforts, Commission staff have mapped nearly 150 hybrid operations executed in NATO territory occurring since the outset of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that have been attributed to or suspected of Russia. 3/6
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