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Dnipro strike and the Baltic defence line call
Summary
A missile hit a residential block in Dnipro as four EU-border leaders pressed for a €2.5 billion defence line.
What did security look like along Europe's eastern edge on 28 June 2024? In Ukraine, a Russian missile hit a nine-storey residential building in Dnipro, killing at least one person and injuring 12 others.
Two days earlier, on 26 June 2024, the leaders of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia called on the European Union to build a €2.5 billion (US$2.67 billion) defence line between their countries and Russia and Belarus. The aim, as they set it out, was to secure the EU from military, economic and migrant-related threats.
The two developments sat side by side: a strike on civilian housing inside Ukraine, and a request from four EU states on the bloc's frontier for a fortified barrier funded at EU level. The proposal named both Russia and Belarus, and it listed threats beyond the military, extending to economic and migration pressures.
The €2.5 billion figure was the concrete ask on the table as the Dnipro casualties were reported.
