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Reuters reported on September 24th that “Russia ‌is likely to intensify its hybrid war against the West in the coming months, Denmark’s defence intelligence service said in a new threat assessment on Thursday. Hybrid warfare and sabotage on European soil gained renewed attention after Germany recently ​blamed Russia for an attempted drone attack at the Leipzig/Halle Airport , prompting European Union members ​to call for new sanctions against Russia. Moscow has repeatedly denied any involvement in hybrid ⁠warfare, sabotage operations in NATO countries, or plotting any confrontation. The Russian embassy in Denmark rejected ​the assessment as unsupported by credible evidence and accused the West, led by Denmark, of driving up ​tensions over Ukraine. “Our persistent warnings about the destructiveness of such an approach are being ignored,” the embassy said in a written statement.”

On May 2nd WTVB reported that “Denmark’s intelligence service expects Russia to recruit civilians and use journalists and business people to spy on the country as an alternative to Russian diplomats who were expelled last year on suspicion of espionage, it said on Tuesday. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has intensified Moscow’s need for intelligence gathering in NATO countries, the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) said in a report on Tuesday. Controlling the entrance to the Baltic Sea, Denmark would play an important strategic role in a potential military conflict with Russia as a transit point for NATO reinforcements, making the NATO-member a particular focus for Russia, PET said. Russia’s embassy in Copenhagen did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Reuters. When Denmark, in line with other EU countries, expelled 15 Russian diplomats in April last year, it crippled Russia’s capacity to spy on Danish soil. “But Russia’s need to obtain information in Denmark has increased … and PET therefore expects Russia to try to use other ways of spying in Denmark,” PET said. “…It could be stationing intelligence officers in Denmark outside the diplomatic representations, for example as journalists or business people, using visiting intelligence officers or that the Russian intelligence services to a greater extent recruit any Danish sources in Russia or in third countries.” Other methods would include different forms of electronic intelligence gathering and cyber espionage, it added.”

Following Germany, France and Italy from earlier this week, on April 5th, Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod announced that “we have established that the 15 expelled intelligence officers have conducted spying on Danish soil.” The 15 intelligence officers under diplomatic cover were based in the Russian Embassy in Copenhagen and were given 14 days to leave the country. Kofod wanted to “send a clear signal that spying in Denmark is unacceptable.”