{"id":15824,"date":"2024-02-21T07:47:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T07:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/21\/estonia-thwarts-shadow-war-attack-prime-minister-kaja-kallas-tells-cnn\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T07:47:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T07:47:03","slug":"estonia-thwarts-shadow-war-attack-prime-minister-kaja-kallas-tells-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/21\/estonia-thwarts-shadow-war-attack-prime-minister-kaja-kallas-tells-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonia thwarts \u2018shadow war\u2019 attack, Prime Minister Kaja Kallas tells CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The operation, extending back to last year, involved a series of attacks, including vandalizing the cars of the interior minister and several monuments. The Estonian Internal Security Service arrested 10 individuals, including both Russian and Estonian nationals. Estonian officials say more attacks were planned.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The 10 suspects were detained for \u201cacting on behalf of a Russian special service,\u201d the Estonian government announced Tuesday. \u201cTo the knowledge of the Estonian Internal Security Service, its aim was to spread fear and create tension in Estonian society,\u201d the statement said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Some of the suspects were recruited on social media, according to Margo Palloson, the director general of the Estonian Internal Security Service.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Russia has not yet responded to the claims.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Earlier, Kallas posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that \u201cEstonia has successfully stopped a hybrid operation by Russia\u2019s security services on our territory,\u201d adding, \u201cWe know the Kremlin is targeting all of our democratic societies.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Russia carried out a massive hybrid attack on Estonia in 2007, involving both cyber attacks and Russian-organized civil unrest. Estonia, a NATO ally, joined the alliance in 2004.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Intelligence analysts say that a variety of Russian agencies, including the FSB and the SVR (its foreign intelligence service), are involved in hybrid operations throughout eastern Europe.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Estonia has been a particular target because of its substantial Russian-speaking minority \u2013 nearly 25% of the population.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The Kremlin is also directly involved in shaping Russian influence operations in neighboring countries, according to Presidential Administration documents leaked last year.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            In March last year, the White House said that \u201cRussian actors, some with current ties to Russian intelligence, are seeking to stage and use protests in Moldova as a basis to foment a manufactured insurrection against the Moldovan government.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The efforts in the three Baltic states, all members of NATO and the European Union, have generally been lower profile \u2013 focused on shifting opinion through social media and pro-Russian activism.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            This is a developing story and will be updated.    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The operation, extending back to last year, involved a series of attacks, including vandalizing the cars of the interior minister and several monuments. The Estonian Internal Security Service arrested 10 individuals, including both Russian and Estonian nationals. Estonian officials say more attacks were planned. 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