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NATO: We will increase efforts to oppose the sabotage acts of Russia and China

Politiko 2024-12-03 16:51:25

NATO: We will increase efforts to oppose the sabotage acts of Russia and China

NATO will increase intelligence sharing and improve the protection of critical infrastructure in light of "hostile" acts of sabotage coming from Russia and China, the head of the Western military alliance, Mark Rutte, said.

"In recent years, Russia and China have tried to destabilize our [NATO member] states with acts of sabotage, cyber attacks, disinformation and have used energy blackmail to intimidate us," Rutte told reporters on December 3.

"NATO Allies will continue to stand together in light of these threats through a range of measures, including greater intelligence sharing and better protection of critical infrastructure," he added.

NATO foreign ministers meet in Brussels this week and are expected to come up with a new strategy to deal with hybrid threats – a term that includes propaganda, political interference, sabotage of critical infrastructure and other tactics that go beyond the domain conventional military.

Western security officials have said that fires at shipping companies' warehouses in Britain, Germany and Poland in July were part of a Russian plot to cause explosions in air cargo bound for the United States.

European states, meanwhile, are continuing to investigate whether the severing of two optical telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea in November was an act of sabotage. One of the cables connects Finland with Germany, while the other connects Sweden with Lithuania.

Russia has repeatedly rejected accusations that it is involved in hybrid acts.

China has also denied allegations that it was behind a cyber attack by a German government agency in 2021.

Western officials have said that NATO faces the challenge of how to respond to the suspected attacks, as some members of the alliance fear that tensions with Russia could escalate./ REL

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