Melita Phachulia was quoted by The i Paper on the Russian threat to the Baltics
October 20, 2026: Melita Phachulia, Executive Assistant and Junior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Center for Research and Innovation Security, was quoted by The i Paper on the Russian threat to the Baltics.
The Baltics have “long been a focus of Russian military planning, information operations, cyber activities and other forms of hybrid pressure”, said Melita Phachulia.
And Moscow has plenty of options, she added. “A more likely scenario would be Russia testing Nato’s cohesion through limited or ambiguous actions that remain below the threshold of conventional war,” Phachulia said, adding that this might include more actions like the sabotage of undersea cables, GPS jamming, drone incursions or the “weaponisation” of migration.