Europe weighs solutions to curtail Russia’s growing hybrid warfare
European governments are struggling to counter a rising wave of Russian hybrid warfare, including sabotage and cyber-attacks. Moscow is increasingly using remote recruitment and cryptocurrency payments to distance itself from these operations.
Why it matters
The shift toward deniable, decentralized sabotage poses a significant security challenge for European defense and infrastructure.
Freight in front of a Ukrainian Antonov plane at Germany’s Leipzig airport after a drone was spotted nearby./Getty Images Freight in front of a Ukrainian Antonov plane at Germany’s Leipzig airport after a drone was spotted nearby./Getty Images Russia Analysis Europe weighs solutions to curtail Russia’s growing hybrid warfare Pjotr Sauer Governments now moving faster to impose costs on Moscow for its increasing attacks over support for Ukraine
Russia’s suspected sabotage campaign across Europe appears to be gathering pace again, confronting governments with a problem they have struggled to solve since the start of the war in Ukraine: how to impose a meaningful cost on Moscow for attacks that remain deliberately below the threshold of conventional war.
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