Spies in Estonia
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kremlin-recruiting-estonians-as-spies-n5dc78klg
Russian intelligence agents are attempting to recruit spies to provide information on Estonia’s border and how easy it might be to penetrate, Estonia’s interior minister has warned.
Kristian Jaani, a former high-ranking police officer, said Russian “influence” operations had “significantly increased” in recent weeks as tensions escalated in the region with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
There are concerns in Estonia that unwitting citizens could be turned into spies working for the Russians inside the country to escalate tensions, destabilise a protest, take photographs of military infrastructure or even gather intelligence on the British-led Nato mission in the country, which has now doubled in size.
