The German intelligence service would have alerted several countries including France to upcoming bomb attacks, fires and cyberattacks from Moscow, according to the British newspaper The Financial Times.
The risk of a Russian attack on European soil would be very significant. According to Financial Timesthe director of German intelligence services Thomas Haldenwang is said to have informed his French, Swedish and British counterparts that the “risk of acts of sabotage initiated by the Russian state” its “significantly increased”.
This German official would have insisted on the“imminence” of several attacks in different European countries “with a high potential for human and material damage”whether in the form of bombings, arson or cyberattacks, evidencing direct engagement in conflict with the West.
An operation already started
The British daily also underlines that a vast destabilization operation could have already begun, citing the fire of a warehouse in the United Kingdom containing cargo destined for Ukraine. In Germany, two men were arrested on suspicion of having planned acts of sabotage on behalf of Russia, particularly in an American military base.
NATO has already warned about the “malicious activities” of Russia on European soil and called for increased vigilance regarding possible Russian destabilization operations on both small and large scales.
Russia has already undertaken disinformation campaigns in France. One of them, through digital interference maneuvers, consisted of the creation of false articles hostile to Ukraine, allegedly published by major French daily newspapers.