Russia struck the Ukrainian town of Pechenihy overnight, killing 10 people and damaging homes, a café, a post office, and other civilian infrastructure. President Zelenskyy pledged Ukraine "will definitely respond" with strikes on Russia, while calling on partners to "complement our just kinetic responses with their own actions to put pressure on Russia." Estonia's foreign minister Margus Tsahkna called the attack pure terror and demanded that "the cost of aggression must rise until Kremlin's calculus changes." Ukraine's foreign minister Andrii Sybiha said Putin "continues to drag the war out" rather than accepting Ukraine's ceasefire terms. In Germany, a Ukrainian man was sentenced to 15 months for plotting arson attacks on behalf of Russia. The case involved three men arrested in Cologne, Konstanz, and the Swiss canton of Thurgau, accused of planning to send explosives targeting a Ukrainian parcel delivery company, intended to ignite in Germany and Ukraine and cause "as much damage as possible." The 30-year-old will be released immediately because pre-trial detention covers his sentence. Two co-defendants were acquitted. The case parallels a 2024 incident involving a DHL logistics centre at Leipzig airport. Germany simultaneously opened a new drone security centre in Cochstedt, Saxony-Anhalt. Interior minister Alexander Dobrindt called the current threat environment "the shadow war of the 21st century," warning that "whoever targets Germany, hits all of Europe." The centre opens two weeks after a drone carrying explosives was found at Leipzig airport, an incident linked to "foreign powers" — widely understood as Russia. Dobrindt framed the response as a competition between states using drone technology against rivals. In France, Paris prosecutors opened investigations into suspected Russian destabilisation operations targeting Édouard Philippe and Gabriel Attal, both former prime ministers and prospective 2027 presidential candidates. Attal's lawyers said they received a report of "external digital interference" linked to Russia from France's Viginum service. A separate probe already covers Raphaël Glucksmann, who linked the campaign to Russia's GRU military intelligence and its Storm1516 group. Three presidential candidates now face active Russian interference investigations. The pattern is coherent: kinetic strikes on Ukrainian civilians to exhaust resolve, disposable agents recruited for sabotage in NATO territory, and digital interference targeting democratic processes in allied capitals. Each vector operates below the threshold that would demand a unified military response, but together they constitute a sustained campaign to fracture European solidarity. Germany's drone centre and France's prosecutorial response are institutional reactions, but they remain reactive — built to respond to the last attack rather than deter the next one. Granada, Spain, meanwhile experienced a series of earthquakes — the largest revised to 4.7 magnitude near Gójar — injuring three people, one hospitalised. This follows Saturday's 5.0-magnitude quake. Local police urged residents to avoid buildings due to falling debris risk. Football club Granada closed its facilities. The seismic activity hits during peak tourist season, adding economic anxiety to physical danger. Andalusian president Juanma Moreno urged "maximum caution" as aftershocks continue.
