🇫🇮🇷🇺⚡️- Finnish President Stubb has also indicated the populations needed to "mentally prepare for something serious to happen" while talking about increased Russian drone activity.

🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡️- Other EU countries' officials have issued similar statements which were less alarmist but hinted at a similar risk of the situation worsening. Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten told medias that the hybrid attacks from Russia had been ramping up in the Netherlands. Berlin officials are preparing for Russian interference tomorrow amidst local elections. Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has reiterated that Russia was in a hybrid war with the Czech Republic and that Czech intelligence services reported an uptick in Russian covert activity.

🇵🇱🇱🇹🇧🇾⚡- Belarus has begun a four day military drill near the Suwalki Corridor (along the borders of Poland and Lithuania). The drills include mechanized and tank battalions.

🇬🇧🇧🇾⚡- "The UK says high-readiness British forces could be deployed under NATO defence plans if Belarus and Kaliningrad attempted to close the Suwalki Gap," - UK Defence Journal.

🇬🇧⚡️- Around 340 proximity incidents caused by drones near military sites were recorded in the UK over the past 12 months.

🇩🇪🇸🇪⚡️- "Together with our German friends, we are today carrying out a rapid reinforcement of Gotland. We are bringing qualified systems here for the defense of the island under the protection of fighter aircraft, frigates, corvettes, coastal artillery and other units that guard the harbor" - Stefan Sandborg, Deputy Chief of Operations at the Swedish Armed Forces.

🇫🇷🇷🇺⚡️- "Russia cannot dictate French policies using threats or destabilization." - Marine Le Pen, in a rare anti-Russian statement.

Marine Le Pen was France's most popular pro-Russian figure until 2022. She was financed by Russian banks for €9M in 2014. While she criticized the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, she kept herself from criticizing Russia openly since then. This statement comes a day after Macron gathered all the leaders of the political forces of France in a meeting to discuss geopolitical threats.

🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡- "Vladimir Putin is preparing to escalate his war against Ukraine and intensify hybrid attacks on Kyiv’s allies in Europe.

Western intelligence officials believe the Russian leader is laying the ground for a “stealth mobilisation” after the sham elections this weekend, in which thousands of Russians could be drafted.

European defence and security officials say they fear that Russia’s aggression in Ukraine is a precursor to a more concerted campaign of increasingly overt action against Nato territory, which could follow the [ongoing 9th Duma] elections [set to finish tomorrow night]," - The Telegraph.

🇫🇷🇷🇺⚡️- France is already conducting undisclosed conventional military responses to Russian hybrid attacks, a French military source tells Le Monde.

Asked whether Paris could carry out military retaliation without publicly acknowledging it, the source said: “That is already happening.”

🇱🇻🇷🇺⚡️- Latvia reveals it holds intelligence that Russia is potentially preparing to tear NATO's Article 5 by sending small special-forces units across NATO’s border.

🇱🇹🇵🇱🇷🇺⚡- Lithuania and Poland have both said they have similar intelligence as Latvia's, adding Russia is preparing a possible 'false-flag'.

🇱🇻🇷🇺⚡- Latvian netizens report the movement of Latvian military convoys to the Latvia-Russia border.

🇱🇻🇷🇺⚡️- It is possible those convoy movements are part of the ongoing nationwide Latvian exercise "Namejs 2026" which will last until October 8th.

🇳🇱 Clashes broke out in the streets of The Hague, Netherlands, as police confronted protesters during a nationalist demonstration.

Mounted police and tear gas were used to disperse the crowd, while some protesters threw flares at officers.

Chants included calls for “remigration” and “White lives matter.”

📎 Europa

📝 🇬🇧 🚷 Charlie Downes on X: When we win, we are going to utterly crush these people.

“The Left” as it currently exists simply will not exist anymore. There will be no Stand Up To Racism, there will be no Hope Not Hate, there will be no Antifa.

I am not interested in their “right to protest” or whatever else. They hate us, they are enemies of European civilisation, they will be destroyed.

We’re not doing this anymore.

📎 Charlie Downes

🇸🇩 Sudan's Army and allied forces claim to have taken 11 areas west of El Obeid in North Kordofan after heavy fighting with RSF, pushing remnants toward the Darfur border.

Follow-on reports claim advances toward Sodari with 20+ RSF vehicles destroyed.

📎 Clash Report