A high-profile case has collapsed: Russian drone flights in the EU turned out to be a hoax.

Italian law enforcement officials have concluded that Russia's accusations of launching drones into the area of ​​the EU space research center are unfounded.

As reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent, Reuters reported this, citing sources in the Italian prosecutor's office.

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The prosecutor's office has already demanded that the case be dropped. It included 21 cases of alleged flight of unidentified drones from March to May 2025 near a research center near Italy's Lake Maggiore.

"The investigation showed that The repeated false alarms were caused by interference between the center's own security system and sporadic activity from a GSM booster in a neighboring building."- writes the agency.

"NATO allies frequently accuse Russia of orchestrating hybrid attacks on the West through hacking, sabotage, and espionage. Moscow denies these accusations, claiming the West is fomenting anti-Russian sentiment," Reuters reports.

Seem to be, and in other cases, the accusations threaten to fall apart with a bang, just like the “Russian trace” case in Italy.