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Russian ghost fleets, nuclear explosions in Algeria: Frontex runs migration 'stress test' in Paris and Brussels

French forces boarding the Russian ghost fleet ship Pushpa at the French Atlantic port of Saint-Nazaire, on 2 October 2025. © Stéphane Mahe/Reuters

Intelligence Online has learned that just as the Russian ghost fleet ship Pushpa was being boarded by French forces off Saint-Nazaire last month, a few hundred miles away, French and Belgian services were involved in an EU border agency simulation exercise whose plot included a similar storyline. [...]

Published on 13/10/2025 at 04:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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