Europe is ready to mobilize to protect its airspace

NATO could take ,,tough measures” against the Russian Federation for alleged violations of European airspace, Czech President Petr Pavel said in an interview with The Sunday Times.

He warned that if similar incidents occur again, the North Atlantic Alliance will have to act more decisively, ,,including, possibly, by shooting down Russian aircraft or drones’’.

The Czech leader noted that Moscow does not tolerate violations of its airspace, and NATO countries should do the same.

On November 27 this year, the American digital newspaper Politico stated that Europe is already planning a cyber attack against the Kremlin regime.

According to two senior European government officials and three European Union (EU) diplomats, the ideas range from joint offensive cyber operations against Russia and faster and more coordinated countermeasures against hybrid attacks to stepping up NATO-led military exercises.

,,In practice, states could use cyber methods to attack systems critical to Russia’s military operations, such as the Alabuga economic zone in Tatarstan in the east-central part of the country, where Moscow produces Shahed drones, as well as energy facilities or trains carrying weapons. We could attack this system and disrupt its functioning’’, said Filip Bryjka, a political scientist and expert on hybrid threats at the Polish Academy of Sciences.

For his part, the commander-in-chief of the Swedish Armed Forces, General Mikael Claesson, called for an end to fears of an escalation of the conflict with Russia, noting that the EU must show firmness.