On 16 April 2026, Intelligence Online reported that “Russian actors linked to Moscow’s GRU military intelligence agency are conducting cyber reconnaissance ops targeting the continuity mechanisms of France‘s strategic communications networks,” meaning the “French nuclear deterrent communications networks,” specifically “infrastructure, personnel and service providers involved in deterrence.”
With Trump’s commitment to America’s NATO obligations growing unclear, the French nuclear deterrent might be particularly important in the case of a future Russia-NATO war, for Europe’s resistance against a potential nuclear blackmail by Moscow. Russia’s efforts to find ways to compromise the French deterrent could be part of its activities conducted in preparation for a future attack against NATO member states.
Efforts Category: Russia’s Covert Subversion vs the Western states
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