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.
