Overview

• In a Telegram post, Dmitry Medvedev urged Europeans to feel the danger of war and used harsh insults toward leaders including Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz.
• Medvedev described an “epidemic” of unidentified drones reported near military sites, airports, fields and over cities across Europe, with no confirmed origin.
• He proposed five explanations: a Kyiv provocation to spur weapons deliveries, activity by pro‑Russian underground groups he called doubtful, local air‑defense testing, hooligan launches, and direct dispatches from Russia.
• Citing the fifth scenario, Medvedev pointed to Vladimir Putin’s recent Valdai quip about not sending drones to France or Denmark, using it as rhetorical cover.
• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected allegations that Russia violated other countries’ airspace, calling such claims empty and unfounded.