Is Russia Plotting False Flag Op To Test NATO Resolve? Baltic States Think So
Baltic nations and Poland are increasing security around critical infrastructure due to fears that Russia may stage false flag attacks using Ukrainian drones. Officials are coordinating intelligence and deploying military support to protect power plants and gas terminals.
Why it matters
This highlights escalating regional tensions and the potential for hybrid warfare tactics to destabilize NATO's eastern flank.
Russia's northern NATO neighbours are tightening security around dams, power plants and natural gas infrastructure in a sign of mounting concern that Moscow will stage a "false flag" attack on them using Ukrainian drones.Lithuania said last week that Moscow is considering such a staged attack and Poland, Latvia and Estonia have also warned of acts of sabotage to test NATO's response at a time when US commitment to the Western military alliance is in question.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov last month said warnings of Russian clandestine attacks are "scare stories" used to justify militarisation against Russia.Poland and the three Baltic states, which all border Russia and have already found Ukrainian drones on their territory, are taking no chances."We are not naive, we see the information, we read between the lines, and we are doing our homework," Lithuanian Defence Minister Robertas Kaunas told Reuters.He, the prime minister of Latvia and four intelligence…
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