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Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

The Baltic has been tense since 2022 – its murky waters the setting to a new ‘hybrid warfare’ targeting undersea cables.

Lithuanian sailor Eric scans the horizon for suspicious activity, ever vigilant of new threats.

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Eyes fixed on the gray horizon, 20-year-old Eric stands on the deck of the Jotvingis, the flagship of the Lithuanian navy.
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The salty air lashes his youthful face. His gaze remains motionless. Covered by a thick white fog, the Baltic Sea looks frozen.
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Eric’s daily task is to scan the waters in the immediate vicinity of the ship, spotting suspicious movements or anomalies in the environment.
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“I joined up mainly because I had poor grades at school, to be honest,” he said with a wry smile. He paused for a moment, before changing his story slightly: “In reality, what prompted me to sign up was the current context,” he said, adding that the threat is “palpable”.
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“The threat is very high. We continue to monitor suspicious Russian vessels.” Eric’s voice is almost nervous. “It's been seven months since I joined and it hasn't stopped.”
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To read more about Lithuanian naval patrol work in a time of rising maritime tensions, read the issue through the link.

counteroffensive.news/p/shadow…


Shadowing Russian hybrid warfare ships in the Baltic Sea

The cutting of underway cables in Europe indicate a shadow war between Russia and NATO is already underway. We joined a Lithuanian naval patrol seeking to push back against Russia’s tricks.
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NEWS OF THE DAY:

TOP DEM SENATOR: DON’T TAKE EYES OFF MOLDOVA, ROMANIA: As violent as the war in Ukraine is, there are broader Russian threats that the United States needs to pay attention to, said Sen. Chris Coons, a senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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Coons recently returned from a Congressional delegation to #Moldova and #Romania, and gave an exclusive interview with The Counteroffensive to share lessons learned.
#moldova #romania
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“#Russia has a playbook, and it has a set of plays that it’s running,” and not just in #Ukraine, he said, referring to hybrid warfare techniques that include threats to Moldova's energy security and influence operations in #Romania.
#ukraine #romania #Russia
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“Their sabotage operations are continuing right now across Central and Western Europe: fires and attacks and assassinations; and that their influence operations using social media; cyber attacks; good old fashioned bribery – are actually having an influence on politics,” he warned. "These are not isolated."

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