Italy Flags Intensified Russian Hybrid Operations

 

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Italy Flags Intensified Russian Hybrid Operations

 


This is the One Big Thing—part of your Threatscape Daily Brief for November 26, 2025.
Today: Italy Flags Intensified Russian Hybrid Operations

This is the hybrid playbook: coordinated influence operations to fracture public trust, probing of industrial control systems and operational technology, and proxy actors amplifying narratives across platforms. It’s a strategy designed to destabilize without firing a shot.

This broadens the threat surface far beyond kinetic fronts. It raises risks to political cohesion, undermines confidence in defense policy, and puts election cycle stability under pressure.

For Europe, the challenge is systemic. Hybrid operations blur the line between peace and conflict, eroding resilience from within. For NATO allies, it means deterrence isn’t just about military readiness — it’s about protecting information ecosystems, critical infrastructure, and democratic processes.

Crosetto’s warning is a reminder: hybrid warfare is not peripheral. It’s central to Russia’s strategy of pressure and disruption.

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