Russian security services, according to the Financial Times, have intensified preparations for attacks on the heads of European defense companies, including manufacturers of drones and their components. According to representatives of five European intelligence services, the Kremlin is also expanding sabotage and other hybrid operations in Europe, seeking to weaken support for Ukraine in the coming months.

#FainenshlTaims #Thepossibilityofamajorwar #Gru #europe #EuropeandRussia #specialservices

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Information has been received by the Polish police about a possible assassination attempt on Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. In Warsaw, an emergency meeting of ABW officers and representatives of services subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior and Administration was scheduled for 11:00 local time.

#Warsaw #VladislavKosinyakKamysh #DonaldTusk #europe #Poland #Incidents

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In France, due to student protests, the operation of 375 lycées has been fully or partially disrupted. According to the republic’s Ministry of Education, 224 lycées were completely closed on Thursday morning, and another 151 partially resumed operations.

#Franceinfo #Disorder #europe #Minors #France

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The Riga City Court sentenced the resident of Rēzekne, Polina Kamleva, to six years in prison in a case involving the financing of an armed conflict. She was accused of transferring 43 euros to buy a drone-jamming device, which was then planned to be handed over to Russian military personnel.

#ArmedForcesoftheRussianFederation #europe #Latvia #PolinaKamleva #Riga #Balticcountries #court #justice

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87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal has died in Spain; her forced eviction from an apartment in Madrid sparked mass protests. After the eviction, she was in the hospital.

#Urbagestión #europe #Spain #Madrid #MarikarmenAbaskal #PedroSanches

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EU ambassadors and officials have been discussing in recent weeks how the Union should respond to a major hybrid attack with several fatalities, POLITICO Europe writes. There is also debate over whether Brussels is going beyond its role and duplicating NATO.

#Thelikelihoodofamajorwar #Hybridattacks #europe #EuropeandRussia #EU #NATO #UrsulavonderLeyen

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Latvian authorities said that armed masked men entered Latvian territory from the Belarusian side, damaged an electrical panel, and stole surveillance cameras. According to them, the same group had previously tried to bring at least 20 illegal migrants across the border.

#Belarus #Thepossibilityofamajorwar #europe #Latvia #NATO #Incidents

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Spanish law enforcement agencies are checking possible links between Ukrainian blogger Anatoly Shariy, whose YouTube channel has 3.4 million subscribers, and Russian intelligence services as part of a case involving tax evasion, money laundering, and document forgery. In June, Shariy’s and his wife Olga Bondarenko’s home was searched, during which a Glock 19 pistol, crypto assets worth about 800,000 euros, and valuables worth another roughly 550,000 euros were seized.

#AnatolyShary #europe #Spain #sbu #specialservices #Ukraine

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The moderately conservative «United List», represented by Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs, won the Latvian Saeima elections. According to preliminary data, it will receive 42 of the 100 seats — a record for a single political force in the entire history of the Latvian parliament.

#Elections2026 #europe #Latvia #SeymLatvii

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The professor at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management in Belgium and senior researcher at the Belgian think tank Bruegel, Guntram Wolff, named limited competition in the European arms market and the slow placement of large orders as the main reasons for the EU’s slow rearmament. In an interview with The Insider, he also said that uncertainty over future orders remains an additional brake.

#Armiesoftheworld #europe #EU #weapon

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Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said that Europe should reconsider the balance of military, economic, and diplomatic tools and give priority to diplomacy in relations with Russia. Otherwise, he said, the situation could lead to a Russian nuclear strike.

#Bulgaria #europe #Russia #RumenRadev #SergeyLavrov #Ukraine

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Russia sent NATO a diplomatic note in which it threatened to use nuclear weapons if alliance countries try to isolate the Kaliningrad Region from the rest of the country. In response, NATO said it remains a defensive alliance and does not consider its exercises or other activities a threat to Russia.

#Thelikelihoodofamajorwar #europe #KaliningradOblast #RFMFA #NATO #Russia

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Several metro stations in Barcelona flooded after torrential rains. Due to the downpours, transport movement in the city was restricted and the flooded stations were closed.

#ElPeriódico #Barcelona #Rains #europe #Spain #underground #Publictransport #Incidents

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By the end of September, Europe’s gas storage facilities are 71% full, compared with a five-year average of 87%, and in Germany — about 57%. Bloomberg пишет that the old market model for gas storage is losing money in this context.

#bloomberg #gas #Germany #europe #EU

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Lithuania has banned Russian billionaires Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman from entering the country for five years after the EU did not extend the restrictions against them. Both have been added to the national list of undesirable persons, and the ban took effect on September 25.

#AlisherUsmanov #europe #EU #Lithuania #MikhailFridman #sanctions

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The Prime Minister of Lithuania, Mindaugas Sinkevičius, called for ensuring residents have access to cash and the ability to pay by bank card in the event of a crisis or mobilization. He also proposed preparing banks, retail businesses, and some ATMs to operate during communication and power outages.

#Baltics #VladimirPutin #europe #Lithuania #mobilization #RussiaandEurope

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Today, one can observe increasing activity of Russian special operations in Europe and expect it to intensify, since Ukrainian resistance relies primarily on European aid. The Kremlin is looking for ways to undermine this alliance no less than for military victories.

#Analytics #droneextermination #WarinUkraine #Germany #hybridwar #sabotage #europe #EuropeanUnion #KseniaFedorova #aftertheUSSR #propaganda #Putin #Russia #specialservices #ultraright #France

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Near the Bundeswehr air base in Wunstorf in Lower Saxony, fragments of a drone and a suspicious substance, which investigators preliminarily believe to be explosives, were found. Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office and the Federal Criminal Police Office are checking whether this is linked to an attempted act of sabotage at Leipzig/Halle Airport.

#Bundeswehr #Germany #europe #EuropeandRussia #Incidents

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In the new Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt, the Alternative for Germany and the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance agreed on the distribution of key posts. If the agreement is implemented, an AfD deputy will become chair of the state parliament for the first time, and a BSW representative will become one of his deputies.

#AfD #Germany #europe #RussiaandEurope #SaxonyAnhalt #SSV

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The Seimas of Lithuania approved in the first vote an amendment to the Constitution that lifts the ban on the deployment on the country’s territory of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, and military bases of foreign states. Ninety-nine deputies voted in favor, 13 against, and five abstained; two more votes are needed for final adoption, and the amendment must receive at least 94 votes out of 141.

#europe #EuropeandRussia #EU #Lithuania #NATO #nuclearweapons

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