{"id":45065,"date":"2026-03-20T09:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=45065"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:17:17","slug":"why-russia-is-intensifying-intelligence-gathering-on-swedens-critical-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/why-russia-is-intensifying-intelligence-gathering-on-swedens-critical-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Why russia is intensifying intelligence gathering on Sweden\u2019s critical infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden\u2019s Security Service warns that russia is preparing for more risky and unpredictable actions. According to the agency, russian agents have been tasked with mapping and documenting facilities critical to Sweden\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f The kremlin\u2019s collection of information on critical infrastructure may indicate a preparatory phase for potential sabotage or diversionary operations. This includes not only military sites, but also energy, transport, and digital infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Sweden has valid grounds to consider russia a threat to its security. The country has repeatedly faced cyberattacks, recorded violations of its airspace by russian aircraft, and acts of sabotage targeting underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Additional unconventional tools of influence have also been identified: Swedish law enforcement previously exposed representatives of the russian orthodox church suspected of cooperating with russian military intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>russia\u2019s actions in Sweden demonstrate a systemic approach \u2014 from intelligence gathering to preparation and potential execution of sabotage. This confirms the expansion of the kremlin\u2019s hybrid aggression against European countries, which is steadily increasing in scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden\u2019s Security Service warns that russia is preparing for more risky and unpredictable actions. According to the agency, russian agents have been tasked with mapping and documenting facilities critical to Sweden\u2019s defense. \u25ab\ufe0f The kremlin\u2019s collection of information on critical infrastructure may indicate a preparatory phase for potential sabotage or diversionary operations. This includes not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}