Russia sabotage campaign in Europe

Moldova recorded four drones entering its airspace, two of which exploded on Moldovan territory.

Two drones violated Romanian airspace, with one crashing near the northern town of Solca.

A Russian Mi-8 helicopter violated Polish airspace and remained there for 42 seconds according to the Polish military.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the Kremlin plans to launch drone and missile attacks against European countries that it would argue were accidental.

NATO fighter jets shot down a drone that entered the airspace of Lithuania.

The Danish Defence Intelligence Service assessed a low but growing risk that Russia will launch a limited military attack against one or several NATO countries bordering Russia.

Polish Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said a fire at a Starlink satellite station in central Poland was a deliberate act of sabotage.

Poland said a Russian military helicopter briefly violated its airspace on Wednesday, forcing it to scramble fighter jets.

Zelensky said Ukraine would seek to target the Russian energy sector over the winter.

Europe blames Russia for hybrid warfare as Russia's war with Ukraine continues.

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

European leaders accuse Russia of hybrid warfare.

Lithuania has updated evacuation plans.

Belarusian forces have staged large maneuvers near Lithuania.

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

Macron said France had been targeted by Russian hybrid attacks in the past few weeks.

Tusk said there was a real risk of Russian strikes on the territory of NATO countries, with Moscow then claiming they were accidental to split the alliance.

Ukraine said all passengers had been evacuated minutes before the strike at Yahodyn, which hit the train's engine.

Finland accused Moscow of weaponizing migration as an act of 'hybrid warfare,' which the Kremlin denied.

Over 1,300 migrants without visa arrived at Finland's eastern border after Finland officially joined NATO.

Finland constructed roughly 124 miles of fencing along its border with Russia.

The indictment says the conspirators used coded language, referring to the assassination as "construction" and the surveillance as "measuring a plot of land."

All five defendants remain at large, according to the Justice Department.

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.

All five defendants were charged with conspiring to finance terrorism.

Russia’s embassy in the US has not commented on the case.

Five people have been charged over alleged Russian intelligence-linked plots involving surveillance, recruitment and planned killings.

James Barnacle Jr is the head of New York's FBI office.

The indictment said recruited associates were solicited to carry out acts of terrorism against civilian and military infrastructure in European countries perceived to be aligned with Ukraine.

According to a release, a network of people working for the Russian Federation's intelligence services had since at least 2024 conspired to conduct and had conducted attacks and murders around the world, including within the United States.

The indictment includes alleged efforts by the group to murder a Russian dissident believed to be located in the Washington, D.C. area.

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.

French media reported that a derailment in Normandy on Friday could have been an act of sabotage.

ProRail warned passengers in the country's centre and north to expect cancellations and delays on Tuesday, and said some level crossing closures could disrupt roads.

ProRail said a train in Steenwijk struck one of the objects, but no injuries resulted.

Russia denies carrying out hybrid attacks in Europe.

Ships typically use flares as warning signals.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called the incident serious but not surprising and described it as part of a pattern of intensifying Russian hybrid warfare against Europe and testing NATO.

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.

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.

EMCO said the fire at its site was sabotage and that human error was completely ruled out.

The fire triggered a series of explosions.

The storage facility that was burned was near the village of Gorni Varpishta, approximately 170km east of Sofia.

The main victim remains in the hospital but her life is no longer in danger.

Forty-four people were treated for injuries.

The Rouen prosecutor's office said the train driver tested negative for drugs and alcohol.

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

Hungary is a member of NATO.

Anita Orbán stated that the decision does not imply breaking off diplomatic relations with Russia.

The letters gave a residential address in the town of Gevelsberg.

Rockets were used to shoot wires across high-voltage cables to cause short circuits.

The attacks led to power-generating units at some plants being temporarily taken off the grid.

Hungary ordered 10 members of Russia's diplomatic mission to leave the country.

European Commission spokesperson Christian Wigand said the commission takes note of Hungary's decision to expel the diplomats.

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

On 10 August, a major fire broke out at a factory of the defence firm EMCO in Bulgaria.

Germany's interior minister declared that Russia is responsible for drones packed with explosives found at Leipzig's airport.

Slovakia is Russia's close ally in Europe.

Deliberate interference in Bergheim temporarily forced lignite-fired generating units representing about 4,200 megawatts of capacity offline.

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt proposed the Baltic Sea task force following an August 28 meeting in Flensburg.

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

An explosives-laden drone was found near a Ukrainian plane at Leipzig/Halle Airport.

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

More than 2,000 people took part in the biggest civil defense exercise in Europe since the end of World War II in Finland.

Leipzig Airport is a key logistics hub for transporting military equipment to Ukraine.

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

Berthon made her remarks at La Ref, a gathering of business leaders in Paris.

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

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.

Merz said the German government is initiating measures to better protect itself against attacks, including stronger drone defences and plans to empower security services to strike back.

The German government has made no direct accusations regarding the incident.

Security experts have speculated that Russia may have been responsible for the incident.

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).

The UK agreed to share blueprints for British-made components for the Scalp missile with Ukraine, allowing Ukraine to produce the long-range weapon domestically.

Andrei Fedorov, a former Russian deputy foreign minister and Kremlin adviser, said there might be a "semi-military" response against UK drone factories by "unknown sources".

Russia's former Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Fedorov warned that factories in Britain producing drones for Ukraine could be targeted by semi-military or unknown forces.

In April, the British defense ministry announced a support package including at least 120,000 drones to be delivered to Ukraine.

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

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

The attack on the British power plant is believed to be the first time Iranian-linked hackers managed to shut down such a facility in the UK.

Both the power plant attack and a July attack on UK water systems targeted computers called programmable logic controllers.

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

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

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

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said the Leipzig drone incident posed a "new quality of danger."

In 2024, an incendiary device ignited at a logistics center at Leipzig/Halle Airport and set fire to a freight container.

The Euskirchen police department has opened an investigation into the drone sightings.

The parcels contained explosive devices set off by electronic timers hidden in vibrating massage pillows.

Ukraine's Ambassador to Germany Oleksii Makeiev suggested Russia was responsible.

Leipzig/Halle Airport is used by the German military and NATO allies for transport of military goods and serves as a base for Ukraine's Antonov Airlines.