Confession of AKI member: We're everywhere. We're visible in public, but among them.

How does this anniversary of independence find in AKI, how co-operation stands, and many more unuttered, you can find out from this story fulfilled by Kosovapress, with the permission of the AKI director, Petrit Ajeti, on the condition that he does not publish the officer's name, follows Klakosova.tv.

KP: How does the Kosovo Republic's 14th anniversary of independence find the Kosovo Intelligence Agency?

AKI officer: AKI, it was established nearly a year after Kosovo's declaration of independence. It has become operational a year later, and today it is a competitive intelligence service not only in the Western Balkans but even wider.

Although the war for liberation in our country has ended in 1999, and despite the presence of NATO peacekeeping forces, Kosovo has been consistently targeted by hostile services, threatening our being as state and nation. That way and in these environments, I also grow AKIs, support national and regional challenges.

Second, as the new intelligence institution, AKI is faced with new forms of threats that have also been challenging for powerful, intelligent services. AKI was born at the time of the rapid development of information technology, which has been a tremendous threat to the privilege.

Third, AKI was born at a time when in parallel the West and our region were subjecting themselves to terrorist threats and manipulations of hostile services with members of terrorist organisations, which has been recorded among us.

And, fourth and most importantly, AKI was born when Putin's ambition was growing to destabilise the region and separately Kosovo; with diplomatic and propagandistic stories, which, according to Russian calculations, would serve to distract the Western focus from Russian Federation's neighbours, where it actually operates with Kremlin war. Today, it is clear to all that Russia is not what its presence in the region has done for development of any kind, economic or cultural, technological or social kind. Russian presence in the region has been aimed at destabilising, anarchy and chaos.

KP: Is it more than necessary to shut down AKI?

AKI officer: Allow me to inform you and the opinion that this interview is conducted with the permission of the director of AKI. Petit Ajeti, with the main goal of conveying our congratulations to all citizens of the Republic of Kosovo for Independence Day. I am saying, as he told us in his letter to the employees, that independence is the crowning of sacrifices and engagement of many generations whose ideal was freedom. Therefore, the greatness of this day is the celebration and memory of the sacrifices and suffering that we experienced throughout our history.

Also, let me tell you this is the first interview of an AKI media employee. I take advantage of the occasion that on this Holy Day, you can convey the most sincere wishes of our associates.

AKI is not closed, it is even very open. Although our doors are open only to employees, we are wherever national security and national interest are required. What's locked and hidden is the methodology of our operation.

AKI she did not need to go to the opinion to reason on her activity. Some rare communiqués have been made in the function of stability, such as countering deliberate dezinforms, which have wanted to cause panic. But this too is in national security.

On the other hand, our communication is daily with the highest state level, which is also determined by law. We also regularly communicate with experts on various fields, with intellectuals and specific people of public life with Kosovo citizenship, as needed.

AKI has no objective of public appearance but of being among the public.

KP: What is the network of AKI associates?

AKI officer: The most valuable asset of AKI is the network of accomplices, so the answer to that question is classified as the greatest secret. But, I can say, our associate is the patriotic, honest and conscientious citizen; the AKI associate is the creditable, professional and with the right approach, where it needs the national security of Kosovo; our associate is one that as much as national security and interest is valued by democracy as the system of values. I say this because, today, it is a challenge to preserve security and, in parallel, democracy. This is common to democratic countries.

At first glance, dictatorial and authoritarian countries may seem more powerful, but their power is false and does not even serve their citizens. It serves only those who lead these countries their authoritarian and dictatorial powers to the detriment of their citizens, but it also has a profound effect on our country and other countries.

KP: According to AKI, what are the biggest threats?

AKI officer: They're a long range of threats, but we divide them into fields. Threats stemming from spying, terrorism, and organized crime. In fact, AKI is already more focused on spying, which appears in different forms. As such, spying is the masked hostile activity of a country intended to harm another country. The challenge of every intelligence service is spying, and therefore comes its own appointment of intelligence services. We have well structured our activity against hostile spying. Of course, there is always more to it. Every intelligent service aims to know even more than I know. This serves national security.

In recent years, mixed forms of threats now called hybrid threats are also circulated. This form is very delicate and comes together, given the propaganda mixed with diplomacy, coupled with subversive physical and cyberspaces, sometimes with terror trends and panic calls, and usually guided by an intelligence service. Kosovo has been subjected to a wild event of hybrid threats, mainly from Serbia and Russia.

The purpose of these campaigns is not only to harm our country but also to all who have helped us and to promote and cultivate democratic values. Russia-led hybrid war and with it present-day powers in Serbia, but other non-state actors in service to these states are examples of fighting the authoritarian powers of the communist remnants against the democratic system. Just as they are around Putin in the Kremlin, those surrounding Serbia's leader in Belgrade are the remains of the dark communist past.

Therefore, we, as well as our partner services, are proud that we value democracy along with security. As in any other institutional field, both in intelligence Kosovo is listed as a democratic state, with no quadro that are the remains of communism.

KP: What are the biggest stories of success that can be mentioned?

AKI officer: The biggest stories of AKI success are that in Kosovo there are no criminal groups which eliminate people and political rivals by grinding them in meat cars, as they do in Serbia.

Our stories of success are not only counted by sequenceing the names of those who face law in court, or the people declared no grata, but by creating an environment as safe as there is no space for such threatening claims.

It would not be successful as if we caught and identified the perpetrators of a bloody provocation, with large numbers of victims as in terrorist attacks, at Pristina Stadium in an international football match. Imagine such a situation!

Success is the ban on those people getting into the stadium and their insight out of our country. Of course, even long - term notices of their entry into our country.

Our mission is to keep intelligent information safe and predictable! So the media and the public have a hard time identifying intelligence.

AKI has a series of other very important successes, but many of them are classified and will not be known for a long time. For us, it is important that we strengthen our national security even more, without having to show our authorship where we have hands, but coupled with the highest state institutions and other security institutions to do our best for our country.

We have reached this level with the most powerful partners, without whose help would hardly be achieved, success, professional thinking and AKI.

We, from a service which until a few years ago was trained by the most powerful friendly services in the world, today we have become important partners in these services. Not only in fighting terrorism, but to what is called the tip of this profession, counterspiration.

KP: How do you view developments in Ukraine and do they have impacts in the region?

AKI officer: When it comes to security, it can be said that any armed conflict can produce undesirable effects anywhere in the world. In the concrete case, alongside the Russian separatist forces in Ukraine, there have been many Serbs listed, who have been part of the war criminal structures in the years of the '90s.

Serbs of paramilitary and militant groups who have committed crimes in Kosovo, Bosnia and Croatia, have been attached to Russian paramilitary and militant groups in Ukraine. Already well-known is the Russian paramilitary group “Wagner”, which is under the leadership of a Putin friend. This group, and of course Serbs within this group, except Ukraine, are involved in monstrous crimes even in Syria, Libya and Venezuela. Some of the Serbs have returned, a large number have remained in Russia, and there are also indicators that another number is already heading towards Russia and is joining the Russians for a new evental war.

More disturbing than that are the agreements that Belgrade made official with Moscow for pursuing their political opponents, which usually in many cases produces their imprisonment and sometimes ends up killing.

There are some Serbian voices opposing this form of action, but they are coming down as a result of the threat.

As a summary in this question, the co-operation of Russian-Serbian military and paramilitary structures seriously threatens the region. One of the people planned to kill the Montenegrin president was ultranationalist Serb, who, in addition to having been on war fronts in Ukraine, was led by Russian military intelligence officers. You know AKI has managed to help detect this coup in Montenegro.