Russia paid a recruit to vandalize London mosques and make it look like a homegrown hate crime
A Ukrainian man has pleaded guilty to the attacks. Direct Action UK, a fake British far-right group, then circulated images of the graffiti.
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US charges five as alleged Kremlin assassination network reaches American soil
Prosecutors say the network expanded from targeting Russian dissidents and defectors to arranging attacks against European countries supporting Ukraine.
Chinese drones over German bases, paid saboteurs lighting fires for Russia—Germany’s military spells out the new normal
First mandated annual report from Germany's MAD puts a Kremlin sabotage pattern on the statutory record—plus Chinese drones over Bundeswehr bases.
Russian spies ran a campaign against Kyiv on Anthropic’s Claude, and the AI chatbot’s maker caught them at it
The operators automated phishing, intrusion, and data theft, leaving the human to refine the workflows.
A Russian intelligence operative and a Belarusian petty criminal: Germany names the Leipzig bomb-drone suspects
The files show one of them handled preparation and logistics, and the other left a scrap of glove on the equipment that flew the drone.
A drone beside a Ukrainian cargo plane is costing Russia its last consulate in Germany
Four others closed in 2023, leaving Moscow with an embassy and, from this month, no consular presence outside it.
Romania trailed a Russian agent for seven months—then revealed what he was filming
Romania watched a man filming NATO bases and Ukraine's giant Antonov cargo planes for months.
A masked figure got into a Polish drone-parts plant—Poland now suspects a foreign spy service set the fire
Poland has opened a foreign-intelligence and terrorism case. A masked figure got in over the fence, the fire followed, and no one is charged.
Germany blames Moscow for Leipzig drone attack, closes consulate and cultural center among sweeping diplomatic measures
One of three drones linked to the incident reportedly struck a Ukrainian Antonov without detonating. Berlin also plans tighter entry controls for Russian nationals and additional EU sanctions.
Russia’s shadow war on Europe is widening—NATO still sees no attack coming
A Polish warning, a US spy chief's Moscow trip, and an explosive drone found beside a cargo plane at a German airport all preceded the alliance's assessment.
Poland arrests a Ukrainian suspected of a Russia-ordered plot to kill a weapons-industry figure—the bomb never went off
A phone-detonated device planted under the target's car failed, and the suspect fled across the border into a Polish cell.
Berlin weighs closing the Russian House for spying, yet a federal ministry just moved in beside it
One arm of the German government reviews shutting the site while another shares a wall with it, exposing a split over how seriously the threat is taken.
Poland and the Baltics risk Russian sabotage for backing Ukraine, Bloomberg says
The CIA warned regional governments as Russia weighed sabotage and false flags against Ukraine’s supporters, officials told Bloomberg.
The Belarus border tunnels reached Latvia—guards turned back the 15 migrants who crawled underground
The passage surfaced near Latvia’s fence as Riga moved to coordinate police, soldiers, and security services against migrant-smuggling networks.
A bomb-laden drone hit a Ukrainian An-124 in Germany, then lay unnoticed for hours
The drone was likely linked to Russian intelligence services, a US Department of Defense representative in Europe suggested.
Sweden says it stopped Russian operation to discredit country and EU. But no one will be prosecuted
Sweden's Säpo exposed a Russian intelligence operation that recruited an agent in a foreign diplomatic mission to undermine Swedish decision-making.
The wreckage Russia collects from Ukrainian drone strikes may have a second life—aimed at NATO, Lithuania warns
Military intelligence gathered data showing Moscow may use captured drone parts for strikes on critical infrastructure in the region, aiming to obscure responsibility and shift blame to Kyiv.
The throwaway agents Moscow sent after a Bavarian drone boss arming Ukraine—and how Germany stopped them
A former Ukrainian bricklayer and an untrained Romanian woman took turns watching him before both were arrested.
The Belarusian tunnel to the EU was almost done. Then Lithuania drilled a hole in exactly the wrong place—for the diggers
Polish tunnel-detection equipment narrowed down the location, and a single bore confirmed a passage running from Belarusian soil.
Baltic nation boosts security at dam, gas storage facility due to Russian threat
Latvia's Prime Minister named a gas facility and the dam upstream of the capital as the sites now under heavier guard.