#russia

Britain says it monitored a month-long Russian submarine and surveillance-vessel operation near infrastructure relevant to the UK and its allies in the North Atlantic.

The U.K. says Russian submarines spent weeks operating around critical undersea infrastructure before British and Norwegian forces tracked and deterred them.

Authorities and researchers say Russian state-backed hackers compromised thousands of routers to redirect internet traffic and steal passwords and authentication tokens across roughly 120 countries.

After a week of Ukrainian drone attacks on major Russian oil and gas facilities near the Gulf of Finland, EU Defense and Space Commissioner Andrius Kubilius said the campaign could impose painful costs on Russia’s war-fu

The Swedish Navy intercepted a suspected Russian reconnaissance drone approaching a French aircraft carrier in the Baltic Sea, in a tense incident reflecting rising NATO-Russia aerial surveillance competition.

Defense analysts are sounding the alarm that NATO lacks the doctrine, technology, and infrastructure to counter drone threats in the Arctic region. As Russia and China expand their military presence in the High North, the alliance faces a critical capability gap in one of the world's most strategically important theaters.