{"id":280588,"date":"2025-07-21T18:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/280588\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:24:11","slug":"putin-is-stepping-up-aggressive-hybrid-attacks-on-germany-spy-chief-warns-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/280588\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin is stepping up \u2018aggressive\u2019 hybrid attacks on Germany, spy chief warns \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s no secret: As a logistical hub for NATO troop movements and as an active NATO partner Germany is always on the radar for foreign intelligence services,\u201d Rosenberg added, her words <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russia-prepares-for-decade-long-confrontation-with-west-estonia-warns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">echoing those of Estonia\u2019s spy chief<\/a> from last year.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, the German navy has seen sabotage operations aboard ships: broken cables, oil in the water supply, or metal shrapnel in a drive train.<\/p>\n<p>Already before Moscow\u2019s February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian covert operations were occurring in Germany. A German court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/germany-expels-two-russian-diplomats-after-tiergarten-murder-conviction\/a-60126840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expelled two Russian diplomats in 2021<\/a> over the murder of a Georgian citizen, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s secret service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ng-interactive\/2025\/may\/04\/these-people-are-disposable-how-russia-is-using-online-recruits-for-a-campaign-of-sabotage-in-europe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">finds the recruits online<\/a>, and they are often unaware of the ultimate goal, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrt.lt\/en\/news-in-english\/19\/2538197\/vilnius-court-opens-terrorism-trial-in-2024-ikea-fire-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Ukrainian teenager who caused an explosion<\/a> in an Ikea store in Lithuania\u2019s capital Vilnius in March 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s no secret: As a logistical hub for NATO troop movements and as an active NATO partner Germany&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[30,2002,2000,299,1824,2817,2818,1114,332,1199,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-280588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-courts","9":"tag-espionage","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-intelligence","14":"tag-intelligence-services","15":"tag-lithuania","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-services","18":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114892627270835781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}