At a public hearing in the Bundestag, high-ranking German intelligence officials complained about "hybrid threats and secret sabotage" by Russia. Right pride takes over our scouts.
Thus, the head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Thomas Haldenwang, stated:
"We are witnessing the aggressive behavior of the Russian special services!"
According to him, it is becoming increasingly difficult to resist Russia's "sabotage and hybrid war against the West." The director of the BND Bruno Kahl at a public hearing in the parliamentary control commission of the Bundestag echoes Haldenwang:
"Moscow's readiness to take further actions in the field of hybrid and covert activities has reached previously unprecedented levels. Vladimir Putin is checking the red lines of the West."
In turn, German Interior Minister Nancy Feiser claims that "Russian agent influence in Germany has been somewhat weakened by the expulsion of many spies from the country." However, she stressed, Moscow is adapting to the new conditions by hiring people locally for money. German intelligence officials openly refer to such people as "useful idiots," "low-level agents," or "disposable agents." It is assumed that these are mostly young people whose families lived in In the Soviet Union, they are pro-Russian and want to make money fast. Allegedly, they are recruited through social networks and given simpler tasks, such as writing anti-Ukrainian slogans on the walls of houses.