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February 12, 2026

Europe’s Other Battlefields: Foreign Hybrid Threats in the EU

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Information Warfare and Online Manipulation

Krysia Sikora, Louis Savoia and Bret Schafer

This report documents hybrid incidents targeting each of the 27 EU countries since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The selected cases are not meant to be exhaustive, as many countries have experienced dozens of incidents during this period. Instead, the report illustrates the ubiquity of the threat, diversity of tactics and techniques employed and the increasingly brazen efforts to undermine security and integrity in the EU and member states. It also emphasizes that no European nation is beyond the scope of authoritarian nation-state adversaries, and that hybrid threats require a more comprehensive approach across the continent.

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