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High-ranking officials of the European Union have been targeted by “spearphishing” cyber attacks, attributed to hackers supported by foreign governments, who have attempted to take over their messaging accounts. The information appears in an internal presentation of the EU’s cyber defense structure, obtained by POLITICO. The document was presented in July to representatives of the member states’ governments and includes “taking control over the accounts of high-ranking officials” among the main cyber threats facing the European Union. This is the first time a European structure publicly acknowledges that EU officials have been the target of such attacks through messaging applications.…

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated on Tuesday, August 25, that the country is “under threat,” after a third drone was found near the Leipzig airport. “The drone attack in Leipzig, among others, shows that we are also facing very real threats. Germany has increasingly come under the attention of attackers who use hybrid methods”, Merz declared before the German government meeting in Neuhardenberg, according to Politico. In early August, German authorities discovered a drone on the platform of Leipzig/Halle Airport. The device was attached to an unknown substance, equipped with a detonator, and investigators believed it could be an explosive…

The European Commission proposes a reform of the European Union’s enlargement process, as the community bloc must prepare for a future with over 30 member states. The European Commissioner for Enlargement, Marta Kos, presented on Tuesday, August 25, at the Croatian Ambassadors Conference in Zagreb, the main directions of the new approach. Kos described the moment as a new “Helsinki moment,” referring to the expansion of the Union after the Cold War, when ten states joined the community block. In his opinion, geopolitical changes also require the transformation of the expansion process. “The world has changed. And the expansion process…

Iceland, the only NATO country without a standing army, begins to rethink its defense policy in the face of escalating activities by Russia and China in the North Atlantic and the Arctic region. As NATO strengthens its military presence on the island, and allies send fighter jets and ships for exercises and surveillance missions, the debate in Reykjavik intensifies regarding Iceland’s ability to defend itself and whether the country should, for the first time, create its own armed forces, according to The Telegraph. For decades, the island with 400,000 inhabitants has relied on the alliance and a bilateral defense agreement…

The Western tanks sent to Ukraine are, for the most part, kept in reserve and hidden in forests, after drones radically changed the way battles are conducted on the front, reports The New York Times in a feature. The combat vehicles, which can cost about 10 million dollars each, are maintained and used for training, but are rarely deployed in combat missions. According to the American publication, tanks have become vulnerable to cheap drones, which can hit armored vehicles at their weak points. Both Russia and Ukraine have tried to protect them by mounting cages and anti-drone nets, however, in…

Latvia will impose a ban on the import of a series of goods from Russia and Belarus, which will come into effect on September 1. After the parliament approved the import ban in July, the government has now set the date of its entry into force and finalized the list of affected product groups, announced the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday, according to DPA and Agerpres. The prohibition covers books, newspapers and other printed materials, clothing and other textile products, footwear, toys, games and sports equipment. In the future, the import of these articles into the Baltic states, members…

The former Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Fedorov has warned that British factories producing drones for Ukraine risk becoming the target of “semi-military” or “unknown” forces, in response to the increasingly extensive military support given to Kiev by the United Kingdom, reports Tuesday CBS News. Fedorov stated on Monday, during the Newsnight program on BBC, that Russian President Vladimir Putin is under pressure from public opinion and Russian mass media to take action against Great Britain. “Something could happen to the enterprises, to the factories that produce drones for Ukraine,” he told the BBC. “They could be attacked – not…

The CIA Director, John Ratcliffe, made a surprise visit to Moscow on Tuesday, at a time when American services are monitoring possible military preparations by Russia. The CIA Director, John Ratcliffe, made a surprise visit to Moscow on Tuesday, American officials announced, this being his first publicly known trip to the capital of Russia, writes The Wall Street Journal. According to the American press, Ratcliffe arrived in the Russian capital aboard a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III military transport aircraft, which landed at Vnukovo airport. Neither the American authorities nor the Russian ones have provided information about the purpose of the…

Iran has issued new threats against Bulgaria, after Sofia allowed the United States to use a military base for refueling aircraft involved in operations in the Middle East, according to Novinite. Tehran maintains that making Bulgarian territory and military infrastructure available to the US constitutes participation in aggression against Iran, and warns that it reserves the right to respond. The new threats come after Iran previously warned that it could strike American military targets in Europe, including in Bulgaria and Cyprus, if Washington intensifies its war against Tehran. Additionally, Greece moved a Patriot anti-aircraft system to the island of Crete…

The Lithuanian authorities have begun installing anti-aircraft defense systems near the capital Vilnius, reports The Moscow Times. The initiative comes following an alert received from the US secret services, adds the cited source. The alert refers to possible Russian hybrid operations against the Baltic states and Poland. According to a report by the Lithuanian public broadcasting, the country’s armed forces have strengthened their air defense near the capital by deploying the NASAMS medium-range air defense system. The CIA has warned allies that Russia is preparing sabotages and false flag attacks. In August, Bloomberg, quoting a European official, reported that the…