"Strong together: AW and BND are continuously working together to combat Russian subversive activities in Europe," reads a post by the German foreign intelligence service and its Polish partner service on Facebook.

Moscow's subversive activities in the West
Russian intelligence services and their proxies "cannot carry out subversive activities on the territory of Germany and Poland without the knowledge and approval of Moscow's highest authorities", the Facebook post continues.

Hybrid threats are understood to mean cyber attacks or disinformation being used as weapons in conflicts. Among other things, there has been damage to underwater infrastructure in recent months, with underwater data cables being damaged in the Baltic Sea, for example. Investigators suspect that Russia is behind this.

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