Sweden Warns of Russia Threat On Eve of NATO Membership

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Sweden’s Security Service (Sapo) said Wednesday Russia posed a threat to its territorial security amid heightened interest in the Arctic as the Scandinavian country prepares to join NATO. Moscow also increasingly poses a threat of industrial espionage, as Sweden was seeing a rise in undercover agents from several countries, Sapo said as it presented its annual threat assessment report. Sweden dropped two centuries of military non-alignment and applied for NATO membership in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Stockholm expects Hungary, the last holdout, to ratify its membership on Monday. Sapo noted that Russia, along with China, was “conducting...