Claudine Fray
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Russia stepping up assassination threats against European defense executives, intelligence warns
Western intelligence services have warned executives of European defense companies that Russia is intensifying efforts to kill them, the Financial Times reported, citing representatives of five European intelligence services. Russia's military intelligence (GRU) is expanding sabotage and hybrid operations in Europe and increasingly relying on organized crime networks to target defense industry leaders, including heads of small firms that produce drones or drone components for Ukraine.