On Monday, the news agency Reuters wrote about this.
Last week, the media reported that Lithuanian military intelligence has data indicating that Russia is considering attacks on critical infrastructure in the Baltic region, using captured Ukrainian drones to mislead.
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BNS wrote that leaders of NATO’s eastern flank countries have recently publicly warned that they have intelligence information about Russia preparing to carry out provocations in their countries using kinetic means.
Since June 18, the Lithuanian Armed Forces have been supporting the Public Security Service in protecting the liquefied natural gas terminal in Klaipėda, the “LitPol Link” electricity interconnection substation with Poland in Alytus, the transformer station in Alytus district, and the Kruonis pumped-storage hydroelectric plant.
On July 17, the Minister of National Defence Robertas Kaunas signed an order extending this protection until August 19. The military must allocate a unit of up to 30 soldiers equipped with transport and a ship or boat with a crew for security support.
R. Kaunas, the Prime Minister of Latvia, and four intelligence and company officials from across the region shared new intelligence assessment details with Reuters and specified the measures being taken to protect infrastructure.
“We are increasing the security of our critical infrastructure, constantly exchanging information with our intelligence on what to do next,” R. Kaunas told Reuters.
Latvia has increased the security of all critical infrastructure, including the dam on the Daugava River near Riga and the Inčukalns underground gas storage, Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs said in an interview with Reuters.
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In Poland, the largest oil and gas company Orlen is analyzing alternative gas import routes in case the usual ones become threatened, said a person with information about its operations.
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Orlen imports 80% of the country’s gas through the Świnoujście liquefied natural gas terminal in the Baltic Sea and an underwater pipeline from Norway, which comes ashore nearby. The infrastructure operator Gaz-System is operating there under “heightened alert” conditions, said another person directly familiar with the matter.
The state developer of Poland’s first nuclear power plant, Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe, reported that forged company documents have appeared aimed at misleading stakeholders, and that their traces lead “east of Poland.”
The company, together with special services and law enforcement, is conducting an investigation and monitoring whether sabotage or other threats are arising at the planned construction site, said press representative Marcin Skolimowski.
Poland’s electricity grid operator and a military unit began increasing the security of the electricity interconnection with Ukraine in July, helping to stabilize the electricity grid of the war-ravaged country constantly attacked by Russia.
The main concern mentioned in the new intelligence assessments is not so much the direct impact of such an attack, but the “political chaos” it could cause at NATO headquarters in Brussels, its European members, and the US as they discuss how and whether to respond at all, said one Baltic intelligence official.
Another source, a regional official, was less categorical and said that a series of “allied intelligence” warnings about Russian activity made a “staggering impression” on the Baltic countries, but attacks could happen “both today and never.”
