70-page Estonian intel report: In 2019, Russia will meddle in European elections and keep prepping for war with NATO.
Russia will target the European parliamentary elections in May, the report says, with a likely focus on the larger member states — Germany, France and Italy — where it can hope to have the most influence on the composition of the E.U. Parliament, whose members are elected for five-year terms.
According to the report, Russian intelligence and special services use human, cyber and signals intelligence — electronic and radio signals — to gather information, including tapping into civilian communication services inside and outside the country. Most units are based near Ukraine and Belarus, but one division, the Pskov Air Assault Division, near the Estonian border"became the first division of Russian Airborne Troops to be reinforced with a third regiment."Analyzing Russia's most recent exercises, the report finds that"Russian armed forces are consistently practicing for an extensive military conflict with NATO.
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