Russian Espionage Modus Operandi VS World For years, Russian secret services have placed agents in European nations, from where they conduct an unnoticed war against the West. They destroy, spy on, and murder dissidents while infiltrating IT firms.
It has lasted much longer than the war in Ukraine and is a struggle for authority, influence, raw commodities, and money. On the first day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a significant number of American Viasat customers unexpectedly lost their satellite internet connection, demonstrating how closely the unseen war is tied to the apparent one.
The Ukrainian army was the true objective of the strike, and 5,800 wind turbines in Germany lost contact with the grid centre.
According to the weekly Der Spiegel, one of the key objectives of Russia's "invisible" war is Germany. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) expressed alarm over attacks on the country's electrical networks in July.
The administrations in Berlin, Paris, and Rome preferred to keep a blind eye although Eastern European nations, the United States, and Great Britain had been warning about Russian intelligence services for years, according to Spiegel.
Koji thinks that the German governments were equally unaware of the threat posed by Russian espionage as they were of their reliance on Russian energy supplies, particularly gas. Russian espionage, disinformation efforts, and cyberattacks now pose a greater threat because of Russia's aggressive assault against Ukraine, according to German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).
Given Germany's federal structure, her ministry issued a warning that the federal level's authority was insufficient to address the current threat.
German foreign intelligence agency BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst) even ceased counterintelligence efforts following the September 11, 2001 terrorist assault on the US on the grounds that Germany needed to focus on a new type of adversary.
Russia is now present in our networks, Wolfgang Wien, deputy director of the BND, has issued a warning. He claimed that the agency has a thorough understanding of the cyber world and that what they have discovered there is troubling.
Like the battlefield in Ukraine, where it has been demonstrated that soldiers still play a crucial role, Russia still relies on cadres and specific personnel for its espionage operations in Germany.
