Media: Russia used Czech Republic as a base for its attacks on Ukraine, EU and NATO
The Czech Republic has become one of the bases for special operations against Ukraine, the EU and NATO. Russian special services tried to obtain "confidential information" of a political nature, the Czech News Agency reports, citing counterintelligence services of the Czech Republic.
According to the media, the Russian special service "has a network of contacts in the Czech Republic, which they continue to develop."
Last year, massive cyberattacks against state organizations and commercial companies were conducted from the Russian Federation, Czech intelligence says. It was noted that the cyberattacks were directed against diplomatic, military, scientific, and research facilities, as well as academic institutions.
It was pointed out that Russian special services are trying to weaken the "information potential" of the Czech Republic by introducing into its media and the Internet, propaganda with deliberately false content.
In addition, the Czech counterintelligence noted that the Russian special services had under their influence Czech citizens who were traveling to the Crimea or entered the Donbas through the Russian Federation.