Russian jet-powered drone hits near Yahodyn, just 1.5 km from Poland, as Warsaw changes air defense rules
Poland plans to allow decisions to engage aerial targets based on radar data.
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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.
A bottle of flammable liquid in Poland, a nuclear option on a Russian wish-list—the hunt for Starlink widens
Strip Starlink from Ukraine and its army goes blind—the calculation driving a Russian proposal to knock the satellite network out by any means available.
ISW connects drone crashes in Moldova and Romania, a Starlink fire in Poland, and a Berlin airport shutdown into one Russian pattern
The institute connects drone crashes in Moldova and Romania, arson at a Polish Starlink station, and a Berlin airport shutdown into a single pattern of Russian pressure on European defense infrastructure.
Russian attack puts three countries on alert as drones enter Moldova and Romania
Moldovan police preliminarily identified the drone that exploded beside a farm as a camera-equipped Gerbera, the first of its type found in the country.
Croatia approves Ukrainian Nord Stream suspect’s extradition to Germany despite Polish refusal
The diver's lawyers plan to appeal in Croatia and international courts, while Zhuravliov plans to announce an indefinite hunger strike.
Explosives found meters from the drone that crashed near a Bundeswehr air base—investigators say it matches the GRU’s Leipzig attack devices
The federal prosecutor and Germany's criminal police have taken over the case, and the drone may have been near the A400M transport fleet hub for up to two years.
Last September, Poland downed four of 19 Russian drones. This September, drone reached NATO’s missile shield in Redzikowo, and troops guarding it called 112
The military did not shoot it down near Redzikowo, and the ministry won't say whether it tried, reviving doubts about Poland's drone defenses.
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.
NATO would strike back if Russia attacks, Polish FM says he warned Moscow
The Polish foreign minister said the warning was intended to deter Russia from taking action that could trigger a wider conflict.
Warning sirens are going west: Russian jet-powered drones bring strikes closer to NATO country
Poland is expanding its warning-siren network as officials prepare for more Russian attacks near the border.
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.
“What Ukraine needs right now”: Poland to provide Ukraine with scarce F-16 missiles to shoot down jet-powered drones
The aid package will also include aviation equipment, Poland’s deputy defense minister says.
Poland can’t arrest its way out of Russia’s spy pipeline—107 espionage cases in 20 months, and the tempo is holding
67 cases in 2025, at least 40 more in the first eight months of 2026—and those are only the top-tier investigations Poland's national prosecutors handle.
Ukraine’s FLYCAT strike drone is built to fly without satellite signals. Its bigger new sibling is designed to reach 200 km behind the front
Everything on the combat-proven FLYCAT but the engines is made in Ukraine, and Octava Defence says the new long-range version can stay airborne for more than two and a half hours.
Russia strikes passenger train near Polish border as drone swarms reach deeper into western Ukraine
Russia’s attacks on railways and border crossings are putting civilian travel at growing risk. Poland’s Donald Tusk warned days earlier that Moscow could target Ukraine’s crossings with Poland.
Poland expects Russia to target border crossings as attacks on Ukraine escalate – Russia has already hit crossings with Moldova and Romania
Moscow has already struck at least five crossings with Moldova and NATO member Romania since late August, pushing its aerial campaign farther from the front line.
Ukraine’s Bulava drone can now hunt in the dark—one camera handles day and night
Every new batch of the strike drone will ship with the upgrade, which also keeps it airborne longer and reaches farther than before.
Poland sent Ukraine 350 tanks—Europe just agreed to refund it half a billion dollars
Once Hungary lifted its two-year veto, Warsaw's total refund for arming Kyiv is nearing $1.4 billion—with $500 million more due in 2027.
Belgium points Ukraine to next year’s European loan instead of Russia’s frozen cash
Earnings from the immobilized money underwrite an earlier European loan, while the sum they come from stays behind one government's objections.