Putins World War: Russias Covert Operations to Destroy the West

Russia is threatening the West with World War III, even though it has already been waging it for years.As its weapons, the Kremlin uses agents of chaos, a covert operation, fake priests spreading hate speech, hackers recruited from prison, and a public’s gullibility. Jessikka Aro’s new book about the Kremlin’s global war presents the secret operations of Putin’s intelligence services in detail.The book takes the reader on a breath-taking journey from the lobby of the Helsinki Courts of Appeal to the controversial Bronze Soldier statue in Tallinn, from the media center run by the Russian military intelligence from Berlin to the Russian troll factory that operated in Ghana in West Africa. At the heart of this book is the story of a Polish flight that crashed in Smolensk, Russia, in 2010, killing all onboard, including the Polish president and his wife, and many other high-ranking members of the Polish government, the details of which are obscured by a successful wave of Kremlin-launched