Trump and Putin's rapprochement: the United States is curtailing reconnaissance operations against Russia - Reuters

Several US national security agencies have suspended a number of counterintelligence operations to counteract Russian sabotage, misinformation and cyberattacks against the backdrop of the convergence of Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. This was reported by the Reuters Agency a number of former and current high -ranking officials. In 2024, the National Security Team of 46th President Joe Baiden created working groups to monitor Russia's activities against Western countries.

The plan included at least seven agencies working with European allies to prevent conspiracies against the EU and the US, sources say. Trump entered the post on January 20 and after that much of the work "went into a dead end. " Officials interviewed said regular meetings between the National Security Council and representatives of the EU national security agencies have become unplanned.

The official coordination of efforts between the FBI, the Ministry of Internal Security and the State Department was stopped.

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Officials involved in working groups are concerned that the Trump administration reduces the priority of the Russian problem. In February, the FBI stopped counteracting US election interference. The Ministry of Internal Security sent on vacation of employees who worked on this issue, and the Ministry of Justice dissolved a team that was confiscation of assets of oligarchs from the Russian Federation.

It remains unclear to what extent the United States share the intelligence on Russia's sabotage campaign with Europe. The UK government has stated that the exchange of intelligence with the states was ongoing. A NATO High -ranking Representative to continue coordination of actions with allies on this issue, but refused to provide detailed information.

In the last three years, Russia has recruited saboteurs in many European countries, they have arranged, assassinations on murder and installed bombs on cargo aircraft, the agency writes. Moscow increased its subversive activity in the spring of 2024, when a wave of arson swept into Europe, in particular in a warehouse in London, connected with a businessman of Ukrainian origin.

In response to a burst of activity, Biden instructed national security services to expand intelligence with Europe and create targeted groups to combat Russian operations. Reuters sources say the United States warned Germany about the assassination of the CEO of the RheinMetall CEO of RheinMetall Armina Papperger. The Biden administration sent groups from the State Department and other agencies to assist European countries in investigating damage to submarine cables.

According to the former and current American official, one of the groups was sent to Copenhagen in December 2024 after Finland seized the Eagle S oil tanker, suspected of damage to Estlink 2 cable at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. In mid -2024, US agencies gathered intelligence that Russia can activate explosives on a cargo or passenger aircraft in the US airspace. "Psychologically, it was a completely different threat than sabotage operations in Europe.

Whisking aircraft is a completely different category," the official said. The number of sabotage attacks in Europe by the end of 2024 has decreased, but the Russian Federation can continue its subversive activities as long as the United States and Europe support Ukraine in military plan, according to three representatives of Western intelligence. We will remind, the Russian aircraft-reconnaissance A-50U recently resumed flights in the area of ​​Sumy region.