Macron Orders Plan to Protect France's Critical Infrastructure Against 'Russian Hybrid Attacks'
Macron said France will mobilize state services and local officials as Russia’s hybrid attacks intensify, with 1 G7 meeting planned on energy security.
- On Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron ordered the government to prepare a plan protecting critical infrastructure and defense sites from Russian drone and cyberattacks, citing an "intensified" hybrid threat.
- Officials describe recent provocations as "shadow operations," including drone flights and cyberattacks intended to intimidate European nations into reducing military support for Ukraine.
- Interior Minister Laurent Nunez mobilized state services to increase vigilance, while authorities monitor risks similar to an alleged state-sponsored drone attack on Leipzig airport last month.
- Macron also announced France will host a G7 meeting in the coming weeks to coordinate energy crisis responses and consider options to unlock strategic gas reserves.
- Asserting "we are not intimidated," Macron vowed these provocations will not go unanswered while maintaining Europe's security depends on continued support for Ukraine against Russia.
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Lietuvos Radijas ir TelevizijaMacron orders protection of French infrastructure from Russian hybrid attacks
The French president said the threat to Europe from Moscow's shadow warfare had "intensified".
President Emmanuel Macron has ordered measures to protect critical infrastructure in France from increasing Russian hybrid attacks.
Macron warns of growing Russian threat: How ‘hybrid attacks’ are targeting Europe
Hybrid warfare refers to the use of multiple methods—military and non-military, overt and covert—to pressure or destabilise another country without necessarily triggering a conventional armed conflict.
French President Emmanuel Macron met with political party leaders to discuss the international situation. After the talks, he said that the Russian hybrid threat to European countries and France has increased in recent weeks.
He asked the French government to develop a defense plan.
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