Russia Used Shadow Ships to Launch Drones Over Europe, IISS Finds
🚢 BALTIC — Shadow fleet ships as drone launch platforms: Moscow hid the hand. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: IISS confirms Russia embedded drone operations inside civilian maritime traffic — the same shadow fleet logic used to evade oil sanctions now applied to air defense probing. With CENTCOM at Hormuz and US bandwidth depleted, NATO's detection gap isn't theoretical. The method survives peacetime legal ambiguity: no flag, no attribution, no Article 5 trigger.
