The U.S. urges its alliance partners to expose and blunt the Kremlin’s strategy of surreptitious attacks.
The Biden administration is warning its NATO allies that Russia is intensifying a covert campaign of sabotage and hybrid warfare against supporters of Ukraine. To counter this rising Russian threat, U.S. intelligence agencies are pushing to their European partners information they can use to disrupt the saboteurs.
This month, the director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, briefed the members of NATO’s North Atlantic Council, the alliance’s decision-making body, about a surge in shadowy, Russian-linked attacks that began this spring. Haines summarized U.S. intelligence and urged allies to expose and blunt the Kremlin’s strategy.
Haines’s warnings about Russian sabotage were described to me by Biden administration and intelligence community officials. They wouldn’t discuss details, but media accounts show the scope of alleged Russian actions. The targets have been mostly linked to European logistical support for Ukraine.“This is Putin’s way to turn up the heat,” said a senior administration official.
“Russia hopes to sow fear and create fissures,” said the senior administration official. “We’ve closed the space for them to do that. If they go further, it will only harden the views of NATO countries.”While concerned by the sabotage campaign, administration officials doubt it will spiral toward an all-out confrontation. Putin doesn’t want a war with NATO that he knows he would lose, officials believe. He just wants to undermine the alliance.
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