VSD warns against provocations – Delfi

In it, the Department of State Security (VSD) points out that these operations are characterized by aggressiveness in order to influence the public, intimidate them, cause panic and disrupt the work of state institutions.

It should be noted that information-psychological attack campaigns are usually based on events that are current in the attacked countries at the time, and socially important topics and significant historical dates are used to create narratives. Monuments dedicated to the anti-Soviet resistance last year in the Baltic States were deliberately desecrated on May 9. on the eve of the so-called “Victory Day” in Russia. According to the intelligence assessment, the likelihood of similar attacks or provocations against various objects in Lithuania remains high in the near future.

VSD once again draws attention to the fact that hostile services seek to recruit residents of Lithuania and other Baltic countries in various ways, whom they could later use to carry out such provocations or attacks. Increasingly, social networks are used for this purpose, where advertisements constantly appear announcing the search for persons who agree to spy for a certain fee, for example, to photograph strategically important infrastructure or military objects and collect data on individuals, to carry out acts of sabotage or vandalism.