Several Russian hybrid attacks targeting Estonia have been foiled by the country’s security services, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has claimed.
In a post on social media, the Estonian leader referred to the fact that last December, the cars of Interior Minister Lauri Läänemets and a journalist were vandalized.
According to an article on Estonian public television (ERR), the country’s secret service believes that Russia was behind the attack with the perpetrators aiming to “create fear and tension within Estonian society.”
Several people have been detained in connection with the incidents.
Läänemets also confirmed his belief that Russia was behind a wave of email threats to bomb Estonian schools late last year and attempted cyber attacks.
Estonian state prosecutor Triinu Olev said that authorities have arrested 10 people, some of them Russian nationals and some with dual Russia-Estonian citizenship, of which six remain in custody.
In addition to Estonia’s staunch support of Ukraine in its war against Russia, Russian-Estonian relations have further deteriorated by Kallas’ campaign to remove Soviet war monuments from the country.
