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A sign reading "No drone zone" at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, Belgium, on Nov. 5, 2025.
Opinion

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

by Megi Benia

European governments are preparing for a form of confrontation that their current investments do not fully match. While Russian-linked sabotage usually uses drones, logistics networks, criminal intermediaries, and deniable proxies against European cities, official policies and national strategies remain focused on detecting and intercepting each incident as it arises. This approach treats only the instrument of attack, leaving the vulnerability it exploits mainly overlooked. That vulnerabilit

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In Kyiv district battered by Russian strikes, a protest to save trees turns ugly

In one of Kyiv's hardest-hit districts, a heating pipeline meant to help residents weather Russian attacks this winter has instead pitted them against their own city's administration. Residents of Teremky, a neighborhood in southwestern Kyiv, say that while they are not against the pipeline itself, they oppose what they see as an unnecessary destruction of greenery to build it. But after a violent pushback by municipal security guards injured several demonstrators, including women, the protest

Demonstrators gather at the Kyiv City State Administration in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 23, 2026.
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