Russian Sabotage Activities Escalate Amid Fraught Tensions

Insikt Group assesses that Russia is likely escalating covert sabotage operations across Europe—targeting water treatment facilities, arms factories, transport hubs, and other critical infrastructure—to degrade NATO support for Ukraine and sow domestic instability; the report links these actions to legacy Soviet sabotage practices, outlines economic/military/political objectives, and recommends strengthened physical security, counterintelligence, and cross-border intelligence-sharing.