Sweden says that Russia is the greatest threat to its safety.

Russia represents the greatest threat to Sweden due to its aggressive attitude towards the West, said the Sauno Sapova Sapo Safety Service.

He wrote in his annual report that, although Sweden joined the NATO Military Alliance, he had strengthened his safety, he had also led to greater Russian intelligence activity.

Sapo also said that the safety situation in Sweden is serious and can worsen with foreign powers that operate more threateningly and resort to hybrid war, along with violent extremism incidents.

Charlotte von Essen, toad chief, said there was a “tangible risk that the security situation can deteriorate even more” in a way that can be difficult to predict.

Sweden became a member of NATO last year, seeing it as the best guarantee against Russia after its large -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

That January, its Minister of Civil Defense He warned “There could be war in Sweden” in the near future due to Russian aggression.

Sapo said Tuesday that Russia’s intelligence activities were mainly destined to undermine cohesion among NATO members, counteract Western support for Ukraine and avoid sanctions.

He said that these activities showed that Russia was becoming “increasingly offensive and prone to risk” due to an accumulation of Swedish and broader European defenses.

“When gathering intelligence, Russian security and intelligence services use a wide range of resources and different platforms,” ​​the agency wrote, adding that they had been limited to expel intelligence officers.

Mrs. von Essen said that the Swedes should be attentive to “generalized anti-state narratives and conspiracy theories” that seek to act as a destabilizing force, and added that it was “important that we will not normalize the new situation.”

In his report, Sapo mentioned suspicious incidents that involve infrastructure and what countries may have been left behind “in some cases.”

A series of submarine cables and gas pipes have been damaged in suspicions of attacks since the invasion of Russia of Ukraine, which led NATO to launch a monitoring mission into the sea.

The last rape was reported last month near Gotland: the largest island in Sweden.

The Swedish government also identified Iran and China as raising important security threats to the Nordic country.

Last year, toad Iranian intelligence accused of hacking a text messaging service To send 15,000 messages to the Swedes, after several Quran burns.

Sapo’s 2025 report said that foreign intelligence threats included cyber attacks, technology theft and tracking the movement of foreign dissidents living in Sweden.

He also said that the threat of terrorism remains high, but was diversifying not only to include “ideologically motivated actors”, but also violence instigated by a foreign and young power with a fascination with violence that have been radicalized online.

Mrs. von Essen said that Sapo had seen examples of nations, including Russia and will induce individuals, often young, to carry out acts of violence.

There have been serious attacks in France, Germany and Austria, said the chief of toad.

Sweden himself was dealing with the sequelae of “the terrible incident in Obro,” he said, referring to the worst massive shooting in Sweden last month in which an armed man attacked an education center in the center of Sweden, killing nine people.

Sapo said that violent Islamist extremism and violent terrorism on the right remained prominent threats.

Sweden remains on the maximum alert for terrorism, with the threat level evaluated on four of a five -point scale.