On 27 September 2026, Latvia reported deliberate sabotage on newly installed surveillance systems along its eastern borders with Russia and Belarus. Border guard chief Guntis Pujāts characterized the cutting of cameras and fiber-optic surveillance cables as targeted sabotage aimed at disabling monitoring systems. The damage affected surveillance equipment designed to monitor a sensitive NATO frontier. The sabotage blinds Latvian border guards, complicates migration control, and probes NATO's readiness to detect covert military and intelligence activities. This incident aligns with broader hostile actions against exposed critical infrastructure in Europe. Latvia's response and NATO's interpretation of the incident remain to be seen, including any arrests, attribution, or requests for EU border technology funding.

On 27 September 2026, Latvia reported deliberate sabotage on newly installed surveillance systems along its eastern borders with Russia and Belarus. Border guard chief Guntis Pujāts characterized the cutting of cameras and fiber-optic surveillance cables as targeted sabotage aimed at disabling monitoring systems. The damage affected surveillance equipment designed to monitor a sensitive NATO frontier. The sabotage blinds Latvian border guards, complicates migration control, and probes NATO's readiness to detect covert military and intelligence activities. This incident aligns with broader hostile actions against exposed critical infrastructure in Europe. Latvia's response and NATO's interpretation of the incident remain to be seen, including any arrests, attribution, or requests for EU border technology funding.