NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, in an interview with Bild on the occasion of the alliance's 75th anniversary, made sensational revelations:
“NATO withdrew Russian personnel from its headquarters in Brussels because we realized that they were performing activities that were not really diplomatic tasks, but secret service tasks.”
On the occasion of the historic anniversary, the NATO Secretary General gave an extensive interview to a German newspaper. The war in Ukraine, as the foreign ministers of Germany, France and Poland recently said in a joint article, was a turning point “that will shape the future” and the Middle East frontline will be within breathing distance of the next big conflagration. In an interview, Jens Stoltenberg mentions the extensive activities of Russian intelligence services in Europe:
“We have seen that Russian intelligence services have been operating in European countries for many years. We also notice that efforts are being made to intensify their activities. On the other hand, of course, NATO allies are monitoring these activities very closely.”
After the Bild interview, writes CNN Greece, a senior NATO official clarified that a formal split between NATO and Russia had already occurred in October 2021, a few months before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, when Russia suspended NATO's diplomatic mission.
In fact, NATO, Reuters reported, was also quick to point out after the interview in question that the secretary general was referring to “incidents that occurred in recent years, not recent months.”
As Reuters also notes, already in October 2021, NATO announced the removal of eight members of the Russian mission in the North Atlantic Alliance, who in fact acted as “undeclared Russian intelligence officers.”
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