Don’t know? Blame Russia: Finnish president takes page from NATO chief’s playbook

Alexander Stubb has linked Moscow to a range of EU troubles while maintaining that a direct conflict is unlikely Finnish President Alexander Stubb has blamed Russia for a wide range of security concerns facing the EU, including the influx of migrants into Ceuta, Spain’s enclave in Morocco, over the summer. He later admitted that he did not know the situation in Ceuta well enough to take a position.Stubb made the remarks in an interview with Spanish newspaper El Mundo over the weekend. When asked about potential hybrid threats posed by Moscow, Stubb claimed that Russia would try to interfere with the upcoming Spanish elections.Madrid “should expect some form of sabotage or hybrid attack. It could be related to information warfare or a campaign that threatens their democracy,” he stated.The president went on to claim that Russian-backed cyberattacks were “happening, as we speak, against Spanish banks and other targets,” without citing specific evidence.“They send asylum seekers to our border, as we have also seen in Ceuta,” he said, accusing Moscow of committing acts of sabotage throughout the EU.He also mentioned cases in which Russian-linked ships were accused of cutting undersea t...