The Pentagon wants NATO’s eastern flank to be quiet about Russia while Washington courts Moscow
Ukraine has already felt the same pressure, aimed at its strikes rather than its words.
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Germany holds two 19-year-olds over Bulgaria’s Starlink arson, and Sofia says they also attacked the network Ukraine fights with elsewhere in the EU
Bulgaria wants them extradited, and their lawyers say they will fight the warrant.
Lithuania’s armed forces chief says patrols on the Kaliningrad border have practically doubled as the troop mission runs into mid-November
Raimundas Vaikšnoras links the deployment to what he calls Russian preparations for a large-scale mobilization, saying Moscow lacks people for Ukraine.
Two Germans charged in absentia over Bulgaria’s Starlink fire, one of three recent attacks on satellite links Ukraine relies on against Russia
Prosecutors say the men crossed in from Serbia as tourists, set the antennas alight within hours, and left the same night.
Romania downs two Russian jet drones near Sulina, days before NATO allies meet on Black Sea security
Romania’s Defense Ministry released cockpit images of the shoot-down as allies prepare to discuss deterrence at a special session Romania requested.
Poland, Bulgaria, now Lithuania: Russia’s suspected arson campaign reaches a third Starlink site serving Ukraine
Lithuanian officials said the night attack was foiled, and the prime minister said he believes the people behind it are already known.
Ukraine-NATO AI built to forecast Russia’s front-line drone attacks from past data and weather is ready to plug into the army
Drone types, areas, time windows: the model was tested on real data. A second tool ranks artillery plans and is now in trials.
Russia-linked bot networks kept their weekly rhythm after drone strikes on three Yandex data centers—disinformation monitor LetsData
One network that spread fake Die Welt sites now pushes a fake Ukrinform site about mobilization in Ukraine, its analysts found.
EU blacklists 1,569 Russian arms suppliers and their bosses in its biggest sanctions round ever, as Trump eases up on Moscow
Most of the listed firms feed the supply chain behind the ballistic missiles Russia fires at Ukrainian cities, and EU ministers vowed to keep up the pressure despite the US-Russia fuel arrangement.
Ukrainian drones hit three of Russian tech giant Yandex’s data centers in four days. Ukraine’s president says the bots thinned out too
Lithuania’s prime minister wants more such strikes to protect elections. Researchers say the bot data shows Yandex’s web crawlers, not trolls.
Peacekeepers, riot police, and drone crews: Russia’s bloc rehearses an operation in a Belarusian oblast bordering two NATO states
Police and national guard units train alongside soldiers from five former Soviet states, under priorities Russia set as the bloc’s chair this year.
Investigators say prosecutors shielded scam call centers. Their office has now fired eight people and is checking how its ex-chief left Ukraine
The acting chief also ordered out a deputy at the regional office he ran until September and dropped no-contest hiring of outsiders.
Lithuania puts up to 100 soldiers on Kaliningrad border as officials brace for possible Russian mobilization
The move comes as Moscow rejects reports of a new call-up while Ukrainian officials warn Russia is preparing to expand its forces.
Lithuania gets its US tank battalion back while the Pentagon weighs pulling up to 40,000 troops from Europe
The Lithuanian leader calls the decision an encouragement and says fewer American soldiers will remain on the continent overall.
Moldova counted 39 Russian drone incursions in eight months, against 17 in all of 2025
Its president says three decades without air defense cannot be undone in five years.
Belarus holds military drills around the Suwalki Gap, NATO’s only land link to the Baltics
Minsk says troops are guarding infrastructure, manning checkpoints, and practicing against saboteurs and drones. It has not disclosed the total number of personnel involved.
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.
Italian jets destroyed a drone over Lithuania in the first such shootdown in the country
Lithuania says there is a high probability it carried explosives, and its origin has not been established.
Lithuania launches military exercises across 12 municipalities as Russia keeps probing NATO’s eastern border
A larger multinational exercise is running at the same time on the Belarusian border, with about 2,500 troops from eight countries.
Someone placed funeral wreaths near defense companies in Lithuania and Czechia
The head of a Lithuanian defense company called it “ordinary intimidation” by Russians.