Kurt Volker calls to increase countering Russian Hybrid Operations

05.09.2022, 10:46 apostrophe.ua

During Russia's conventional war against Ukraine, Russian hybrid operations remain out of focus, so it is necessary to develop our own proactive strategy and strengthen opposition to such hybrid activities of the Russian Federation. This was stated by US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Kurt Volker in a commentary to Guildhall. "First of all, I would like to say that you are absolutely right (Russian hybrid operations remain out of focus during the war), Russia has a full-spectrum war concept. This is not only a war of artillery, what is happening in the south and east, this is an economic war, this is war against Ukrainian export, against Ukrainian energy, this is a war in the information space, a war to divide Europe from within, in particular through blocking energy supplies to Europe, this what they are trying to do in the US. Russia has activated the full range of activities," the ambassador said.