Russia is recruiting saboteurs across Europe through Telegram by monitoring pro-Kremlin channels to identify potential "low-level agents" and offering small payments for tasks like photographing military sites or starting fires, Germany's intelligence chief warned during a parliamentary hearing of the country's intelligence chiefs in the Bundestag.
Europe is living through a period of "ice cold peace" that "could at any moment turn into open confrontation", the head of foreign intelligence service BND, Martin Jäger, warned at the event.
