NATO Members Condemn Russia for Sabotage and Destabilizing Activities

NATO condemns Russia's hybrid activities, including disinformation, sabotage, and cyber attacks, as a threat to its security. These activities, targeting multiple Allied territories, are part of Russia's ongoing destabilization efforts. NATO vows continued support for Ukraine and calls on Russia to abide by international obligations. Despite the accusation, Russia has not yet responded.

NATO countries say they are deeply concerned by a campaign of hybrid activities on the military alliance's soil they attribute to Russia, and which they say constitute a threat to their security.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday in a message posted on the social media platform X that actions including disinformation, sabotage, acts of violence and cyber and electronic interference "will not deter us from supporting Ukraine." There was no immediate reaction from Russian authorities on Stoltenberg's statement.

Earlier this year, a UK-based think tank said Russia was rebuilding its capacity to destabilise European countries, posing a strategic threat to NATO as its members focus on the war in Ukraine.

"NATO Allies are deeply concerned about recent malign activities on Allied territory, including those resulting in the investigation and charging of multiple individuals in connection with hostile state activity affecting Czechia, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and the United Kingdom," the North Atlantic Council, the principal political decision-making body within NATO, said.

NATO allies condemned Russia's behaviour and called on the country "to uphold its international obligations." "These incidents are part of an intensifying campaign of activities which Russia continues to carry out across the Euro-Atlantic area, including on Alliance territory and through proxies," the statement read.(AP) RUP RUP

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