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Unidentified drones reported over Thales Belgium sites as company seeks clearer counter-UAS rules
Thales Belgium has reported a rise in sightings of unidentified drones over sensitive company sites in the Liège region and is urging clearer guidance on when and how private operators may counter unmanned aircraft near critical infrastructure. The reports come…
Germany Moves to Empower Police to Shoot Down Rogue Drones Amid Surge in Airspace Incursions
The German federal government has approved a controversial measure that would allow police forces to shoot down unmanned drones in cases where they pose a clear danger to airspace or public safety. The decision — backed by cabinet agreement on…
Kyiv’s intelligence service says China shares satellite data aiding Russian strikes on Ukraine
At least three Chinese reconnaissance satellites from the Yaogan-33 series passed over western Ukraine during Russia’s large missile-and-drone attack on Sunday, 5th October, according to open-source orbital data reviewed by the Ukrainian defence outlet Militarnyi. The passes coincided with strikes…
Cybercrime’s New Frontier: Why Access to Data Is Now the Battleground
At a recent Europol conference, law-enforcement officials and policy experts issued a stern warning: the battle against cybercrime is increasingly hinging not on defensive walls, but on access to the data those criminals generate—or hide behind. As digital tools grow…
Ukraine reports overnight strikes on Russian refinery, missile ship and command post
Ukraine’s Armed Forces said they conducted a series of strikes overnight into 4 October, claiming hits on an oil refinery in Leningrad Oblast, a small missile ship in Karelia, military equipment in Kursk Oblast, and a command post of Russia’s…
Britain Scrambles to Secure Strategic Space Assets from Enemy Strikes
In quietly unveiling a new programme to harden its defence of space assets, the United Kingdom is implicitly acknowledging a new frontier of confrontation. The modest £500,000 earmarked to develop sensors capable of countering laser attacks on satellites is, on…
Russia’s Aging Nuclear Arsenal: A Significant Threat to the World
Amid the constant chatter of global crises, a quieter but far more insidious danger is growing: the state of Russia’s nuclear weapons, largely inherited from the Soviet era, aging, overworked, and increasingly unreliable. Russia boasts the world’s largest nuclear stockpile, with…
The Silent Revolution Beneath the Waves: How Submarine Warfare Is Being Transformed
Few areas of military technology have been cloaked in such secrecy, myth and awe as submarine warfare. For much of the twentieth century, the ocean’s depths offered an almost impenetrable sanctuary for nuclear submarines, diesel-electric boats and the handful of…
Orbital Arms Race: The Emerging Reality of Space-Based Weapons
The militarisation of space, long a topic of speculative fiction, has become an increasingly tangible reality. In the coming years, the heavens may not be the serene domain once envisaged by early space explorers, but rather a contested frontier where…
The Role of Innovation as the Foundation of a Strategy of Sustained Resistance in Depriving Russia of the Ability to Impose Its Terms Through War
EU Today presents an English translation of an opinion essay by General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, a Ukrainian four-star general, former Commander-in-Chief (2021–2024), and since July 2024 Ukraine’s Ambassador to the UK. Writing in the context of DSEI 2025, he analyses the…