{"id":13723,"date":"2025-03-18T09:09:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T09:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/russia-escalated-sabotage-to-pressure-u-s-and-allies-on-ukraine-study-says\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T09:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T09:09:25","slug":"russia-escalated-sabotage-to-pressure-u-s-and-allies-on-ukraine-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/russia-escalated-sabotage-to-pressure-u-s-and-allies-on-ukraine-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Escalated Sabotage to Pressure U.S. and Allies on Ukraine, Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russia significantly stepped up its sabotage campaign over the past two years as it sought to pressure Europe and the United States to curb their support for Ukraine, according to a new study released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/analysis\/russias-shadow-war-against-west\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The report<\/a>, by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, is one of the first that try to quantify the scale of Moscow\u2019s covert campaign that targeted undersea cables, warehouses and railways. It found that Russian attacks in Europe quadrupled from 2022 to 2023 and then tripled again from 2023 to 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is an important tool that the Russians are using in coordination with their conventional war in Ukraine,\u201d said Seth G. Jones, the author of the study and a former adviser to the U.S. military. \u201cIt makes very little sense now for Russia to push troops across the border to the Baltic States or Finland. But their payback for these countries that are providing weapons is going after their companies, assassination plots against officials and threatening critical infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Amid the push by Washington to halt the war in Ukraine, Russia has tamped down its sabotage efforts in recent weeks, according to a Western official. But experts believe the campaign against European targets could continue once governments put in place new plans to support Ukraine with weapons or peacekeepers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Anger at Russia\u2019s sabotage efforts has the potential to influence European reactions to the U.S.-led push for an end to the war in Ukraine. Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland noted in a social media post on Monday that Lithuanian officials had confirmed his assessment that Russia was responsible for a series of fires in shopping centers in Warsaw and Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital. \u201cGood to know before negotiations,\u201d Mr. Tusk wrote. \u201cSuch is the nature of this state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The message to countries supporting Ukraine has been that Russia can impose costs \u2014 and increase them. There is little evidence that the Russian campaign was effective last year. But as the United States apparently retreats from its backing of Ukraine and European allies, the question will be whether a covert Russian campaign can become more successful at pushing countries to reconsider their support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies found that about 28 percent of Russia\u2019s attacks were against transportation targets, 20 percent against industrial targets and 20 percent against undersea cables, pipelines and other infrastructure. Overall, the study tracked 50 separate acts of sabotage from 2022 to the present.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russia has tried to control its campaign and not escalate too much. It tried to cap the level of violence to avoid inadvertently driving up support for Ukraine, Mr. Jones said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe don\u2019t see a lot of people dying right now,\u201d he said. \u201cIf a train was derailed carrying weapons, that would be one thing. If it were full of people, that would be a whole different thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">People who have been killed as part of the covert campaign, such as a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/31\/world\/europe\/russian-defector-murder-spain.html\" title=\"\">former Russian helicopter pilot in Spain<\/a>, were mainly defectors. While Russia has tried to avoid killing foreigners, Western intelligence officials said last year that it had <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/11\/us\/politics\/russia-assassination-plot-germany.html\" title=\"\">sought to kill the chief executive<\/a> of a prominent German arms maker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">American and European officials have been concerned about miscalculation by Russia and its inability to precisely control some of its own operatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/05\/world\/europe\/russia-plot-dhl-planes.html\" title=\"\">Russian intelligence plotted to place incendiary devices<\/a> on DHL cargo planes last year, the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/13\/us\/politics\/russia-putin-airplane-shadow-war.html\" title=\"\">Biden administration warned President Vladimir V. Putin<\/a> that sabotage that brought down aircraft would elicit a serious response. European leaders and NATO have repeatedly called out the attacks, issued warnings and expelled Russian diplomats and spies over them. But the report found that those efforts \u201cfailed to coerce Russia\u201d from stopping its campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The effort is part of a Russian tradition of covert sabotage, known as active measures, that the K.G.B. honed during the Cold War. Russian military intelligence, known as the G.R.U., has led the current campaign, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/26\/us\/politics\/russia-sabotage-campaign-ukraine.html\" title=\"\">The New York Times reported<\/a> in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The operation intensified last year, when the Kremlin approved a push after Britain and Germany announced new support for Ukraine, according to the Western intelligence official. The German publication <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wiwo.de\/politik\/europa\/ukraine-krieg-russlands-sabotageangriffe-auf-europa-im-januar-gab-der-kreml-den-befehl\/30142660.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">WirtschaftsWoche reported<\/a> the decision to expand the sabotage campaign, including the use of other Russian intelligence services.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The new study found no recorded attacks in European countries friendly to Russia, such as Serbia and Hungary. On the other hand, Poland, which has been the hub of Western aid flowing to Ukraine, has been repeatedly targeted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey are clearly making concrete decisions of whom they go after and whom they don\u2019t go after,\u201d Mr. Jones said of Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While the cutting of cables by Russia\u2019s shadow fleet of ships trying to evade sanctions has received much of the attention in recent months, Mr. Jones said a majority of attacks were explosive or incendiary devices causing fires at factories, warehouses and other facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He added that there had not been any instances of sabotage around U.S. bases in recent weeks. Last year, as the sabotage campaign stepped up, military officials ordered <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/01\/us\/politics\/us-bases-alert-level-russia.html\" title=\"\">U.S. bases in Europe to raise their alert level<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI have not seen a U.S. target in the last couple weeks,\u201d Mr. Jones said, \u201cso they appear to be holding off from U.S. targets right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     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