{"id":1361966,"date":"2026-02-24T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/trojan-horses-on-nato-territory-russia-is-preparing-a-large-scale-sabotage-campaign\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:00:40","slug":"trojan-horses-on-nato-territory-russia-is-preparing-a-large-scale-sabotage-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/trojan-horses-on-nato-territory-russia-is-preparing-a-large-scale-sabotage-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTrojan horses\u201d on NATO territory: Russia is preparing a large-scale sabotage campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Kremlin is creating a network of \u201cTrojan horses\u201d by buying up real estate near military bases in NATO countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2026\/02\/23\/russian-spies-buy-homes-close-military-sites-europe-kremlin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is stated<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the material of The Telegraph.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to intelligence officials, such actions by the Russians indicate preparations for a coordinated sabotage campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cases of buying real estate near military and civilian facilities have already been recorded in at least ten countries, including Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The purchased buildings were planned to be used by Russian intelligence agencies for surveillance, sabotage, and covert attacks. Some European intelligence officers suggest that the Kremlin stores explosives, drones, and weapons at certain sites and places secret agents to activate them at the right moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rather than a military attack, Russia would rather engage in sabotage, paralyzing NATO countries\u2019 transport, communication, and energy networks. Such actions would complicate the application of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA sabotage campaign has less chance of consensus on Article 5 than a regular Russian military operation,\u201d the intelligence officer is convinced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experts and politicians are concerned that the Russians may have purchased properties overlooking the Trident submarine base or the locations of undersea cables in Scotland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are also concerns that Kremlin agents own houses near the Akrotiri air base in Cyprus, naval bases and radar installations in Norway and Sweden, and key sea lanes and telecommunications infrastructure near the port of Turku in Finland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFor more than a decade, Russian entities have systematically purchased real estate in Finland, Sweden, and Norway near military bases, ports, and strategic supply lines,\u201d said a senior fellow for strategy and national security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He added that this tactic has existed since the Cold War, when the Soviet Union had a number of apartments in Helsinki that it used for espionage, weapons storage, and so on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, European countries are being advised to follow the example of Finland and the Baltic countries, which have implemented an almost complete ban on Russians and Belarusians buying real estate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> As it became known, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiia-aktyvizuvala-dyversii-v-yevropi-dlia-pidryvu-pidtrymky-ukrainy\/\">Russia is using &#8220;disposable&#8221; agents for sabotage in European countries<\/a> in order to sow chaos and undermine support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> Let us remind you that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zahroza-nad-yevropoiu-moskva-aktyvizuie-provokatsii-ta-dezinformatsiiu\/\">the Kremlin is actively forming the psychological and informational basis<\/a> for a possible future war against NATO.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kremlin is creating a network of \u201cTrojan horses\u201d by buying up real estate near military bases in NATO countries. This is stated in the material of The Telegraph. According to intelligence officials, such actions by the Russians indicate preparations for a coordinated sabotage campaign. Cases of buying real estate near military and civilian facilities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1265463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1361966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1265463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}