Map showing Russia's 'secret war' with the West has now begun

The downing of the DHL Express cargo plane near Vilnius airport on Monday, the recent bombings that terrorized Londoners, from Euston Square, Gatwick Airport to the US embassy, ​​are just some of Russia's attempts to started the secret war with the West, he writes Telegraph.

Even the drones seen flying over US air bases in the UK and the explosion of weapons at ammunition factories in Wales in April have only escalated the situation.

The telecommunications cables that snapped in the Baltic Sea earlier this month, the arson attacks including those on Ukrainian businesses in Leyton, east London in March this year, the interference with railway operators in the Czech Republic, are clear indications, are cases of others registered, Telegrafi reports.

Satellite damage and jamming caused changes to television programs across Europe. The assailant killed in Spain in February, the attempted murder of the executive director of the German company involved in the production of arms, are not isolated cases.

Dozens of other similar incidents took place – while the West supports Ukraine, while Russia has stepped up acts of sabotage across Europe and beyond – fueling the continent's sense of insecurity since the Cold War.

The security services have already sounded the alarm. "We should expect to see continued acts of aggression here at home," MI5 director-general Ken McCallum said in a speech last month.

“The GRU [Russia's military intelligence service] in particular is on a mission to create chaos on British and European streets: we've seen arson, sabotage and more. Dangerous actions carried out on the rise", he added.

It is, he said, a "coordinated campaign" that requires a "strong and sustained response".

This week, Bruno Kahl, the head of Germany's foreign intelligence service, said Russian "hybrid measures" only increase "the risk that NATO will eventually consider invoking its mutual defense clause [Article 5]".

And in a joint speech with his French counterpart on Friday, Sir Richard Moore, the head of MI6 - known as "C" - spoke of the "morally bankrupt axis of aggression" overseen by Vladimir Putin.

"We have recently uncovered an extremely reckless campaign of Russian sabotage in Europe, even as Putin and his associates resort to nuclear strikes to sow fear about the consequences of aid to Ukraine and challenge Western resolve to do so." , he said.

But "our security - British, French, European and transatlantic - will be at risk," added Sir Richard of the prospect of Putin reducing Ukraine to a vassal state.

"The cost of supporting Ukraine is well known, but the cost of not doing so would be infinitely higher," he added. / Telegraph