"Always hit first." Russian services after 3 years of war with Ukraine

Oleksandr V. Danylyuk, in his publication Components of Russia's Undeclared War Against the West (RUSI, January 28, 2025), emphasizes that military aggression is only 1 of many elements of the three-year confrontation – Russia besides reaches for sabotage, intensive intelligence operations and propaganda campaigns. Mark Galeotti, in his publication Siloviki at War: The Russian safety Community Since February 2022, (Mayak Intelligence; University College London) points out that the Russian services had been operating "free and aggressively" before February 2022, and **the war gave even more momentum.**