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- Polish Deputy PM Krzysztof Gawkowski said a fire Wednesday night at a Starlink satellite station in Wola Krobowska, Masovian Voivodeship, was deliberate sabotage designed to disrupt internet access for institutions including the Ukrainian army; PM Donald Tusk said it 'looks bad' but avoided confirming sabotage.
- Denmark's intelligence service issued a new threat assessment warning of 'a low but growing risk' that Russia could launch a limited military attack against NATO countries, expecting Russia to escalate hybrid warfare in coming months.
- Moldova's president said four Russian drones crossed into Moldovan airspace Thursday with at least one exploding, while Romania's defence ministry reported one drone crashed on its territory; Poland separately scrambled fighter jets after a Russian military helicopter briefly violated its airspace Wednesday.
- Germany earlier this month blamed Russia for an attempted drone attack on Leipzig/Halle Airport, while France ordered a plan to protect critical infrastructure and defence industry sites.
- Russia struck Kyiv overnight with drones, ballistic and cruise missiles, killing two and injuring eight; fragments hit a maternity hospital where a woman gave birth to a boy in a shelter, and strikes on data centres disrupted internet across parts of the city.
- Zelensky, speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York, called on the US for ballistic interceptors, saying 'Putin is always looking for someone who can help him kill more'; in parallel, Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev traveled to the US to meet Trump officials Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, while Lavrov told the UN Security Council there would be no pause in the war.
Why it matters: NATO's eastern members — Poland, Romania, Moldova — are now logging near-daily Russian airspace violations and infrastructure attacks, with Denmark's intelligence assessment formalizing what leaders have privately warned: that Moscow is probing NATO's commitment to Ukraine ahead of winter. The Polish Starlink fire specifically targeted connectivity for the Ukrainian military, putting direct NATO infrastructure in the crosshairs of attacks previously reserved for Ukraine itself.
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