By Simas Prašmantas, LRT.lt.
Contraband balloons disrupting the work of Lithuanian airports, the increasing number of drone incursions, and intelligence activities in NATO airspace are part of a deliberate and well-coordinated Russian campaign against NATO, George Barros, an analyst at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), told LRT.lt in an exclusive interview.
He describes this campaign as Phase 0 – a stage focused on creating informational, psychological, and political conditions in preparation for a possible war against NATO member states.
The analyst criticises Western European countries for still hesitating to identify the growing number of provocations as deliberate Kremlin actions.
Barros heads ISW’s Russia and Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) team, which analyses Russia’s war against Ukraine. He studies Russian information operations, the planning and execution of the Kremlin’s military campaigns in Ukraine and Belarus, and advises senior officials on the lessons of modern warfare.
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