Russia’s attacks on Europe are getting more brazen and more dangerous

Firefighters extinguish a fire inside a train carriage that was damaged by a drone strike near Ukraine's border with Poland on Saturday. | Ukrainian State Emergency Service / via AFP-JIJI

Bloomberg

Sep 17, 2026

Over the course of the summer, Russian attacks have been pushing ever deeper into European territory.

On Aug. 11, military divers destroyed two drones floating off the coast of Romania near a €4 billion ($4.7 billion) energy project. Nine days later, Bucharest scrambled two F-16s to take out a maritime drone near the same Black Sea gas platform with hundreds of workers on board. Earlier that month, German police detected an armed UAV at Leipzig airport, while this week NATO jets downed another unmanned aircraft that entered Lithuanian airspace from neighboring Belarus, an ally of Moscow.

In all these cases, the authorities pointed the finger squarely at the Kremlin.

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