The European official said the man accused of coordinating a plot to put explosives in packages on cargo planes, for example, was recruited by Russian intelligence after involvement with smuggling guns and explosives. The man is linked to at least four other plots.

A recent survey of 500 European security specialists ranked “a cease-fire favorable to Russia in its war against Ukraine” as one of the two top risks to the European Union next year. The other risk is hybrid or gray-zone war, which many officials have previously said Russia is already waging against Europe.

In 2024 alone, ENISA, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, logged more than 11,000 serious cyber incidents across the European Union.

The Trump administration sent shockwaves across the Atlantic last week with its new National Security Strategy. The strategy’s dismissal of the threat from Russia and harsh criticisms of Europe and NATO led the German chancellor to describe elements of the strategy as “unacceptable,

Ukrainian negotiators who met Mr Zelensky in Dublin on December 2nd to debrief him were unsurprised that the Moscow talks fizzled out. “We have lots of convergence with the US ,” said Sergiy Kyslytsya,

Even while at war, Ukraine has been piping gas for Russia to European customers. But that arrangement, which dates back to the fall of the Soviet Union, has now expired. Russia earned an estimated $5 billion from the transits in 2024, with Ukraine getting ...