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Europe faces threat of organised sabotage, terrorist attacks: Estonian FM Tsahkna

France 2423 October 2026, 14:55 UTCEstonia

Estonia's counterintelligence service has recently warned that sabotage operations orchestrated by Russian special services have reached a new and dangerous phase in Europe, with targets no longer being purely symbolic. Talking Europe sits down with the country's foreign minister, Margus Tsahkna, to discuss the security situation in Estonia and the European Union in general.

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