#ESTONIA: #RUSSIA: Hybrid warfare attacks include vandalizing autos of public offcials. Patrick Tucker Defense One
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🗓️ 24 February 2024
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#ESTONIA: #RUSSIA: Hybrid warfare attacks include vandalizing autos of public offcials. Patrick Tucker Defense One
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2024/02/russian-hybrid-operations-rise-estonia-moldova/394318/
1919 Estonia
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| 0:37.6 | boot of the Soviet Empire, now independent members of NATO, members of the EU, a prosperous land, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. |
| 0:46.0 | I learned, however, from Patrick Tucker, the technology editor of Defense One, that Estonia is |
| 0:51.9 | under assault. How? Carjacking, harassment, by Russian speakers. Why? |
| 0:58.0 | Patrick, I'm very good evening to you. I lack a larcenous brain. It never would have occurred to me that at the KGB slash |
| 1:06.1 | FSB there was a carjacking division. What is going on to your understanding in Estonia good evening to you |
| 1:13.8 | uh... good evening yes uh... a very interesting alert |
| 1:16.8 | what yesterday by the stonias internal security service director |
| 1:21.0 | uh... reiterated by the prime Minister on X, which is formerly Twitter, basically alerting |
| 1:27.4 | to what they're calling a Kremlin-backed hybrid warfare operation in Estonia where GRU officials, so part of the Russian military, |
| 1:39.6 | use social media to reach out to Russian-speaking citizens in Estonia and there were some |
| 1:46.7 | that apparently had Russian passports too, paid them money to vandalize the car of the Interior Minister and a couple of journalists. |
| 1:57.8 | And it's all part of this effort to create a sense in Estonia that popular sentiment is rising against the government, |
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