Aside from Ukraine, where there are few things Russia has not used from its special warfare arsenal over the past decade, what is likely the harshest, most brutal, and most reckless hybrid operation the Kremlin has conducted outside the Ukrainian front is currently underway. Its effects on a wider area are not as significant as those in Ukraine, and even less so compared to Moscow’s operations in America or Western Europe, but in terms of intensity and expected destructive impact, it may even