Russia sabotage campaign in Europe

Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday.

Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs said an incursion of the type seen in Ukraine in 2022 is not likely and that Russia is absorbed in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused European leaders of seeking a war against Russia and frightening their populations with an imaginary threat.

Romanian Defense Minister Radu Miruta said that not more than a 'diplomatic protest' was needed.

Moldovan President Maia Sandu said that Russia's war was a danger to all of Europe and reasserted Moldova's support for Ukraine.

Romanian President Nicusor Dan said in his address to the UN General Assembly that Romania has directly felt the effects of the war through repeated violations of its airspace.

Denmark's intelligence service said a Russian attack remained highly unlikely but warned of a low but growing risk that Russia could launch a limited military attack against NATO countries.

Russia's Lavrov told the UN Security Council there would be no pause in the war.

Krzysztof Gawkowski said many indications suggest the attack fits into a new Russian doctrine of attack.

European leaders accuse Russia of hybrid warfare.

Europe says it is facing attacks including explosive-laden drones, sabotage, political meddling, and cyber targeting.

Russia denies allegations of hybrid warfare from Europe.

Russia is stepping up its hybrid campaign across Europe.

Top European officials are alarmed that Russia could stage drone or missile attacks against NATO countries.

Germany is preparing hospitals for a possible conflict.

Macron mentioned last month's drone attack on Leipzig airport in Germany, which was blamed on Russia.

Russia warned the UK that any British military facilities in Ukraine used to strike Russian territory were legitimate targets.

French President Emmanuel Macron warned that the threat of hybrid attacks by Russia against Europe and France has intensified.

Russia filed a formal complaint condemning Finland's border closure as 'Russophobic.'

Hakkarainen said Russia has attempted to instrumentalize migrants at the Finnish border by pushing them toward Finland's borders.

Finnish lawmakers passed the Border Security Act, a temporary law allowing border authorities to restrict asylum applications and turn back migrants if a foreign actor attempts to destabilize the country.

The indictment said that after the offer was rejected, a member of the intelligence services tried to recruit multiple other people within the United States by offering them substantial amounts of money.

Authorities said the network this summer recruited an individual based in the United States to surveil and murder a prominent Russian dissident believed to be residing in the United States.

An indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court said a network of Russian intelligence services had paid and attempted to pay individuals to surveil targets to be killed.

Justice Department officials said the network recruited several people in the US to carry out surveillance on Russian dissidents, targeting individuals domestically and in Lithuania.

A recruit was reportedly promised $40,000 to make a US-based target “disappear”.

The defendants were identified as Russian national Yuri Khrameev, his son Kirill Khrameev, Cubans Oemis Romagoza Durruthy and Yaidel Delgado Suarez, and Venezuelan Angel Eduardo Castro.

The U.S. accused Russian intelligence operatives of orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot targeting a Kremlin critic believed to be living in Washington, D.C.

Prosecutors allege suspected Russian intelligence operatives directed a U.S.-based Venezuelan citizen to secretly film two Washington-area locations tied to a Kremlin critic in late August before offering him $40,000 to carry out a killing.

Federal prosecutors claim the conspiracy was part of a broader global network that recruited people to carry out assassinations and terrorist attacks on behalf of Moscow.

The charges include allegations of financing terrorism and conspiring to commit murder plots around the world.

An indictment was unsealed in the Southern District of New York charging multiple Russian citizens.

The identities of the indicted individuals and charging documents were not immediately made available.

Nederlandse Spoorwegen said the disruption was too extensive to provide a bus replacement service.

ProRail said no suspects or motives had been identified.

ProRail said materials were found at multiple locations in the track that were deliberately placed there, and that sabotage appears to be involved.

Barbin told RIA Novosti that he had delivered a formal note demanding steps to prevent a repeat of the episode.

Moscow warned Denmark to avoid “reckless” action after a Russian frigate fired two flares that narrowly missed a Danish military helicopter.

Barbin said the helicopter’s actions were provocative and raised “serious concern about the possible consequences of such recklessness.”

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said the strikes were designed to intimidate Europeans, discourage them and above all to divide them.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Russia's Sunday morning drone strike on a Warsaw-bound train near the Ukraine-Poland border was intended to push Western countries to stop their backing for Kyiv.

Kaja Kallas told reporters after landing in Finland for an Arctic summit that the strike was clearly intended to frighten Western countries into ceasing their support for Ukraine.

Forty-four people were treated for injuries.

Prosecutor Sébastien Gallois said the leading theory is that a piece of rail on the tracks potentially caused the derailment.

The train's 'black box' has been seized.

Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev said the authorities are not ruling out outside interference in the incident.

Bulgaria is investigating the cause of an overnight fire at an ammunition storage site run by a private defence company.

Bulgarian prosecutors allege that Emilian Gebrev has been targeted by Russian agents.

Viktor Orbán was the predecessor to Peter Magyar as Prime Minister of Hungary.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said it plans to provide an appropriate response to the expulsions.

Peter Magyar is the Prime Minister of Hungary.

Hungary is a member of NATO.

Anita Orbán said the 10 Russian diplomats had engaged in activities unacceptable for diplomats under the Vienna Convention.

Former Hungarian foreign intelligence deputy head András Telkes said the Fidesz government had prevented any action being taken regarding Russian spying activity before the election.

In Saxony, police found 21 devices near high-voltage power lines on Friday and Saturday.

The letters were signed with the first name Daniel.

German media named the suspect as Daniel V.

German media quoted a federal police report listing more than 165 suspected sabotage cases nationwide in 2025.

On 30 August, Poland reported two fires, including one in Lublin at a company that produces helicopter components.

Two Bulgarians were arrested in Munich, Germany, for suspected arson after throwing incendiary devices from a car at defence firm Rhode & Schwartz.

Russia denied responsibility for the Leipzig incident, calling Germany's accusations entirely fabricated.

German authorities have not publicly connected the power-grid incidents to Russia.

Germany proposed a rapid-response task force in the Baltic Sea region to coordinate responses to hybrid threats.

Berlin blamed Moscow for an attempted drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport on Aug. 4.

A Norwegian court ordered the seizure of the Russian vessel as part of efforts by Naftogaz to recover a $4.22 billion arbitration award.

Two Bulgarian nationals were arrested after incendiary devices were thrown at a construction site in Munich.

Céline Berthon said France must consider the possibility of direct, more violent hostile actions on its national soil.

Céline Berthon is the director-general of the DGSI.

An explosive device was discovered near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Germany's Leipzig Airport.

The U.K. has supplied Ukraine with British cruise missiles since 2023.

Fedorov told the BBC's Newsnight show that Vladimir Putin was under pressure from public opinion and Russian media to take action against Britain.

Burnham said in Kyiv that the U.K. would continue providing Ukraine with the weapons it needs to defend itself.

The Scalp missile is a French-produced version of the UK's Storm Shadow cruise missile and has a range of about 240km (149 miles).

Fedorov said Putin was facing serious pressure from public opinion polls, journalists, and mass media to take measures against the UK.

Burnham responded to Peskov's comments by asking who started the fire.

Leipzig/Halle Airport is used by the Germany military and Nato allies for the transport of military goods.

A drone carrying an explosive device was discovered at Leipzig/Halle Airport on 4 August.

Friedrich Merz warned that those responsible for drone attacks and other hostile acts against Germany would "pay a price".

Sweden's armed forces have asked the government to expropriate a Russia-owned property near a naval base on security grounds.

The military said the development of Russian drone warfare has changed the threat landscape for Sweden.

Sweden ended two centuries of military non-alignment and joined Nato two years ago because of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The system at the British power plant was offline for four days while employees worked to restore control.

British officials and industrial executives have not disclosed which power plant was hit.

In 2022, UK officials condemned Iran for a cyberattack that crippled Albania's government services.

The suspect under investigation in Romania is being held there in connection with planned parcel bomb attacks.

In 2021, a German court handed a life sentence to Russian national Vadim Krasikov for a Moscow-ordered murder in a Berlin park.

German federal prosecutors are investigating a suspect in Romania on suspicion of espionage and preparing a serious act of violence threatening the state.

Leipzig/Halle Airport is a major hub for international freight and for providing support to Ukraine.

The drone device found at Leipzig/Halle Airport was defused.

The drones were spotted at the Bundeswehr base in Mechernich around 10 p.m. on Thursday.

A drone carrying an explosive device was found at Leipzig/Halle Airport.

Flights on the northern runway resumed at 01:55 and the southern runway remained closed.

Last year a Chinese woman was convicted for passing information about flight schedules and cargo movements at Leipzig/Halle Airport to a man spying for Beijing.