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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A Russian drone struck an apartment building in Galati, Romania on May 28, injuring two civilians and marking the most serious Russian incursion into NATO territory since 2022, with Alliance response limited to verbal condemnation.