Hybrid Threats Loom Over Baltic Sea Region, Energy Crisis Brewing in Germany The recent gathering of interior ministers and senior officials from 10 European countries in northern Germany to discuss hybrid threats highlights an escalating trend: the use of drones as a means of coercion.
Russian involvement in suspected hybrid incidents in the Baltic Sea region is clear, with the discovery of an explosives laden drone at Leipzig Airport on August 4 being a stark example.
This meeting follows a pattern of increasingly brazen actions by Russia to disrupt European stability and security.