Russia’s spying activities in Finland weakened significantly – intel report

This was reported by AP, Ukrinform reports.

Finland's intelligence service, known as SUPO, has said that Russian intelligence is in a much worse position because of Finnish intelligence's ability to compromise Russian espionage erations in 2022.

A reduction in the number of intelligence eratives and restrictions on crossing the Russian-Finnish border against the backdr of Russia's war in Ukraine significantly worsened the erating conditions of Russian spies in Finland, SUPO said.

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"Russian intelligence station (in Finland) shrank to about half of its former size last year,” SUPO Director Antti Pelttari said, noting that the main reason behind this was a series of expulsions of suspected spies and visa refusals on his agency’s advice.

SUPO noted that covert erations under diplomatic cover have traditionally been the main to of Russian intelligence on foreign soil, and Moscow has tried to use cyber-espionage, among other tos, to compensate for the lack of human resources.

As reported earlier, the head of UK’s defense intelligence, Ken McCallum, called on the pulation to treat the threat of Russian and Chinese espionage as vigilantly as terrorism.