Europe’s most concrete Russia warning of the cycle came from Copenhagen: on Sep 24 Denmark…
Europe’s most concrete Russia warning of the cycle came from Copenhagen: on Sep 24 Denmark raised its threat level for destructive cyberattacks from medium to high, its security service citing ‘concrete Russian planning and preparations for acts of sabotage against Denmark,’ while military intelligence warned of a ‘low but growing’ risk of a limited Russian attack on NATO border states, possibly within months. Russia sent 295 drones at Ukraine overnight into Sep 25 (267 downed), hitting a 25-storey Kyiv apartment block, a night after its Zircon-and-ballistic wave damaged a Kyiv maternity hospital; Ukraine’s General Staff puts Russian losses at 1,525,570 (+1,590). In Tehran, MPs want FM Araghchi before parliament over his Witkoff contact, yet Brent eased to about $105 early Sep 25 on reports of a phased Hormuz deal after settling at $106.60. Lukashenko pardoned 15 more prisoners amid US sanctions talks.
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The cycle’s new signal is institutional rather than kinetic. Denmark’s Agency for Civil Security raised its threat level for destructive cyberattacks — including wiper and operational-technology attacks — from medium to high on Sep 24, after the PET security service identified ‘concrete Russian planning and preparations for acts of sabotage against Denmark’; the Defence Intelligence Service said Russia will attack the West more often and ‘with greater consequences,’ and put the risk of a limited military attack on a NATO border state at ‘low but growing,’ possibly ‘in the coming months,’ naming isolated long-range strikes, false-flag use of Ukrainian drones or small troop incursions as options — TechSavvy, ArcticToday, Jerusalem Post. Russia’s air campaign on Ukraine is running at sustained high volume: 295 drones overnight into Sep 25, 52 of them jet-powered Shaheds, of which 267 were downed, with strikes at 16 locations; in Kyiv a drone hit a 25-storey building in Solomianskyi and another a Podilskyi building, injuring 1, after a 1:26am ballistic alert. That followed the Sep 23–24 wave of 282 drones plus Zircon, Iskander-M, KN-23 and S-400 missiles that damaged a maternity hospital and killed 2 in Kyiv, and a drone strike that killed 6–7 farm workers in Kharkiv region. At least four drones entered Moldova on Sep 24, forcing a temporary closure of its northern airspace, and one crashed near Solca in Romania. Ukraine’s General Staff put cumulative Russian losses at 1,525,570 (+1,590), with 50,275 artillery systems and 532,575 drones destroyed. On Iran, the Sep 23 ceasefire road map remains unaccepted and unanswered by a second round; MP Ali Khezrian says Araghchi must explain the Witkoff contact to parliament when he returns, and an impeachment motion is registered. Markets are reading the track more hopefully than Tehran’s hardliners: Brent settled at $106.60 on Sep 24 after Houthi missiles targeted Taif and Yanbu, then eased to about $105 early Sep 25 on reports the US and Iran were weighing a phased deal to reopen Hormuz — Trading Economics. Lukashenko pardoned 15 prisoners on Sep 24, per Belta via Reuters, as US talks on prisoners-for-sanctions continue. Background from the prior cycle stands: the Trump–Xi summit produced no joint statement or Taiwan shift, only a trade-truce extension to Jan 10, 2027; Netanyahu drew UN walkouts as the Board of Peace unveiled a $2.45B Gaza recovery plan.
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