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NATO secretary general, repeatedly described in the sources as calling probable Russian sabotage 'reckless and dangerous' and urging a clear, fast and decisive allied response.
Drone strikes on at least seven ships off Romania and Bulgaria this month have left two people dead and at least 25 missing, ABC News reported. Some NATO members wonder whether Moscow is testing their support for Ukraine, but the account does not establish who launched the drones.
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Latvia is building border anti-drone defenses in which only the final neutralization decision is human, defense minister Raivis Melnis told Business Insider. The aim is to run the network with fewer soldiers, though the reporting does not say when it will be finished, what it costs or how many soldiers it would save.
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Vladimir Putin said a "direct attack" on Kaliningrad "or maybe some other territories" would put the use of all Russia's weapons on the agenda. This week his embassies tied nuclear use to one observable event, NATO cutting the exclave off from Russia; Putin's wording lets Moscow decide what counts.
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The officers running Norway's Ukrainian training pipeline say Western peacetime procurement cannot hold a wartime tempo. Their evidence is a camp cleared out of Polish forest in months and a drone update that takes six.
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Western intelligence ties a new wave of fires at plants supplying Ukraine to Russia, tasked through criminal middlemen and paid in crypto. The arrests so far reach only the hired hands.
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