Russia will become more authoritarian and militarized in the coming years. This was stated by the representative of the Norwegian intelligence service Lars Nordrum, adding that the war in Ukraine was a disaster for Russia.. Warrons reports..

" The Russian state will become more authoritarian and militarized,” said Nordrum, presenting the annual risk assessment for Norway, a NATO member that shares a border with Russia..

The catastrophe for Russia that Lars Nordrum talks about is primarily the consequences of Western trade sanctions, the international isolation of Moscow and more than 100,000 Russian soldiers lost in the war..

He drew attention to the use of propaganda by the Russian Federation to manipulate public opinion and Moscow's increasingly close ties with other authoritarian regimes..

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Norwegian intelligence experts in the first risk assessment since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine concluded that Russia and China remain the main threats to Norway's security and interests.

At the same time, the war, according to Nordram, increased the geopolitical importance of Norway, not least because it made the country a leading supplier of gas to the European continent..

Foreign intelligence agencies closely follow the war in Ukraine and regularly share their observations with both Ukrainian colleagues and the public..

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So, Canadian intelligence recently reported that Russian troops in Ukraine have problems with ammunition.. According to British intelligence, the loss of Russians over the past two weeks is the largest since February last year..

According to the representative of the military intelligence of Ukraine, further mobilization will further deplete the Russian Federation. If Russia continues with a new round of mobilization, it will suffer from the same problems that the previous wave revealed..