Vilnius Airport Shut Down Again After Balloon Incursion from Belarus
What began as smuggling balloon intrusions from Belarus has now forced airspace closures at the NATO capital of Vilnius at least 20 times since October 2025, with Lithuanian officials citing each incident as deliberate hybrid warfare and no effective deterrent response in sight.
Russian Intelligence Network Charged with Murder-for-Hire Plot Against US-Based Dissident
The DOJ charged five members of a Russian intelligence network with conspiring to kill a Washington-area dissident, recruiting a Brooklyn resident to conduct surveillance for $1,500 before offering $40,000 for the killing itself, with all five defendants at large in Russia.
Two Bulgarians Arrested After Incendiary Attack on Munich Defense Firm
Germany has arrested two Bulgarian nationals in a September 3 incendiary attack near Rohde and Schwarz's Munich headquarters and identified strong indications the attack was directed by Russian intelligence, making it one of the first arrests in the current European defense industry sabotage wave.
Russian Intelligence Weapons Cache Exposed Near Berlin, Suspect Held in Romania
Germany wants a suspected Russian intelligence proxy extradited from Romania after the same man was connected to both a parcel bomb plot and a cache of firearms hidden in a Berlin-area forest, offering the clearest public evidence yet of Moscow running pre-positioned assets and proxy networks simultaneously across at least two NATO states.
Ukraine Intelligence Officer Kills Monaco Bomb Suspect; SBU Role in Bombing Under Scrutiny
The main suspect in the Monaco bombing targeting a sanctioned Ukrainian oligarch was killed in Ukraine by an SBU officer who then confessed; French investigators now suspect the SBU organized the original attack.
Russian Geran-2 Drone Strikes Chornobyl Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Building; IAEA Warns of Grave Risk
A Russian Geran-2 drone struck the fuel reception building at Chornobyl's spent nuclear fuel storage facility on June 7; no radiation was released and no one was injured, but the IAEA warned that active nuclear material storage was meters away from the targeted building and Ukraine classified the attack as a war crime.