Europe calls out Russia’s ‘hybrid war’ in public. But how can it make Putin pay?
Governments are now quicker to point the finger at Moscow, but critics say their inaction invites more sabotageRussia’s suspected sabotage campaign across Europe appears to be gathering pace again, confronting governments with a problem they have struggled to solve since the start of the war in Ukraine: how to impose a meaningful cost on Moscow for attacks that remain deliberately below the threshold of conventional war. Over the past month alone, an explosives-laden drone was discovered next to

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