BRUSSELS: NATO will step up intelligence sharing and enhance the safety of crucial infrastructure within the face of “hostile” acts of sabotage towards allies by Russia and China, NATO chief Mark Rutte mentioned on Tuesday (Nov 3).
“Over the previous years, Russia and China have tried to destabilise our nations with acts of sabotage, cyberattacks, disinformation and vitality blackmail to intimidate us,” Rutte instructed reporters.
“NATO allies will proceed to face collectively to face these threats by way of a spread of measures, together with larger intelligence sharing and higher safety of crucial infrastructure,” he mentioned.
NATO overseas ministers gathering in Brussels this week are anticipated to supply a brand new technique to counter hybrid threats – a time period that covers propaganda, political interference, deception, sabotage of key infrastructure, and different techniques past the standard navy area.
“There’s a sustained, ongoing, every day hybrid marketing campaign going down towards NATO allies,” a senior NATO official instructed reporters on Tuesday.
The official, who spoke on situation of anonymity, pointed to “an rising Russian danger urge for food relating to sabotage for bodily harm and risk to individuals’s lives within our nations”.
