Russia's 'hybrid attacks' against NATO 'look like war' and allies must draw 'red lines'
Russia's 'hybrid attacks' against NATO 'look like war' and allies must draw 'red lines'
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Russia's unconventional attacks against NATO "look like war" and allies must set new red lines that will trigger a retaliation if crossed, a former foreign minister has warned. Gabrielius Landsbergis, who stepped down as foreign minister of Lithuania earlier this month after four years in the post, told Sky News he did not believe the alliance was responding with sufficient speed and urgency to the threat.
Moscow is accused of a campaign of so-called hybrid attacks - designed to sit in a grey zone under the threshold of conventional war - that includes sabotage, the cutting of undersea cables, cyber hacks, election interference and assassination plots. The Kremlin has denied Western allegations of hybrid hostilities.
Mr Landsbergis said a failure by NATO to act would lead to a worsening of the danger. He warned there was even a possibility of an act of Russian hybrid warfare being sufficiently harmful that it could prompt allies to invoke an Article 5 response, whereby an attack on one member state is seen as an attack on all.
"From my perspective, it does look like war," the Lithuanian politician said in an interview earlier in December, a couple of days before he left his post as foreign minister. "Russians are… very good at sensing weakness or geopolitical vacuums. So, if there is no pushback, they will just creep on and continue with their activity.".
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