Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles deemed it possible on Friday June 24 that Russia would launch a cyberattack during the NATO summit, which will be held from Tuesday to Thursday in Madrid.
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Asked whether Spain feared a Russian cyberattack, Margarita Robles estimated, without naming this country, that "
the possibility of a cyberattack exists
", saying that she could not say more "
for security reasons.
".
“
There are many challenges and many threats, but we have a lot of people working
” on these issues, “
precisely to prevent any situation that could affect security
added the minister, questioned by journalists on the sidelines of a trip to a military site near Madrid.
According to the Barcelona daily La Vanguardia, the Spanish intelligence services fear a Russian attack against strategic infrastructure such as airports, hospitals or water and energy supply centres.
The Spanish capital will be placed under high security with a total of 10,000 law enforcement officers deployed for this summit, which will include US President Joe Biden, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, and the heads of government of the United Kingdom. United and Germany, Boris Johnson and Olaf Scholz.
This summit will be dominated by the question of the Russian threat and by the invasion of Ukraine, launched on February 24 by President Vladimir Putin.
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