Russia has a plan, and if you pay attention to the latest actions it is carrying out in its armed conflict against Ukraine, you can see that this plan does not involve a conventional war, nor with long-range missiles, but rather it is the so-called “hybrid war”, although Moscow denies it.
There are many European ministers and former ministers, mainly from countries close to Russia, who are denouncing these practices by the Kremlin, as was the case of the former Foreign Minister of Lithuania,
Recently it was the Ukrainian chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, who demanded greater vehemence from the Alliance to stop and counteract these practiceswhich were already denounced in the past by the president of Ukraine, Zelensky.
But what do we mean by hybrid war? This concept refers to attacks against energy facilities, submarine cables – like the one that has taken place in the Baltic in recent days -, etc.
Faced with this scenario, Yermak stated on networks that “when we talk about what European countries and NATO states should consider, “It is essential to assess the risks of hybrid threats emerging at their borders.”
This is a situation that the countries bordering Russia have been warning about in recent years, mainly since the war broke out in Ukraine, and from the invaded country they assure that This “may not be the only such threat coming from Russia.”
In this sense, and if we look at the last few days, at the damaged submarine cables in the Baltic, we must add the interception of the buque Eagle Swith the flag of the Cook Islands, which is believed to belongs to Russia’s “shadow fleet”, and that seeks to avoid the sanctions imposed on Moscow by the West.
“Russia has multiple options to test the cohesion of the alliance,” said Polish Lieutenant General Jürgen-Joachim von Sandrart, before leaving office in November, who assured that the possibility of a Russian attack on NATO territory is “very real.”
