PoliticsEurope is learning the wrong lesson from Russia's drone war

European governments are preparing for confrontation that their current investments do not fully address, the article argues. Russian-linked sabotage uses drones, logistics networks, criminal intermediaries and deniable proxies, while European strategies focus on handling incidents one by one. The piece says Europe is overlooking slow, fragmented security structures and should study Ukraine's integrated surveillance, intelligence and distributed-response model.

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TThe Kyiv Independent★★★☆☆2026-10-06 15:44Original