US EditionRussia's GRU Behind Airport Parcel Bombing Plot, European Intelligence Believes
- European intelligence agencies believe that Russia's GRU military intelligence service coordinated a series of airport parcel explosions in July 2024, involving at least 10 individuals, as reported by German media outlets.
- The attacks included a parcel fire at Leipzig Airport and similar incidents in Warsaw and Birmingham, with the packages containing magnesium-based explosives, according to investigators.
- One organizer of the attacks is identified as GRU Colonel Denis Smolyaninov, who had been sanctioned by the EU before the incidents, according to the joint investigation by WDR, NDR, and Süddeutsche Zeitung.
- The Russian Embassy in Berlin denied the allegations, calling them 'paranoia' and 'conspiracy theories,' while Washington warned President Vladimir Putin of potential consequences if the sabotage resulted in U.S. Casualties.
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Some experts suspect that a series of aviation incidents traces back to Russian aggressors. The sophistication only rivals the potential for danger—and the sky’s the limit.
Lithuania: Kęstutis Budrys on Russia's hybrid warfare
Last summer, the Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys said that people could have died in the fire package attacks on DHL aircraft – and everything points to Russia as a mastermind. He calls for a more offensive reaction from the West to such sabotage acts.
International investigation: Lithuanian man's path to GRU hybrid operation
Aleksandr Šuranovs, a Lithuanian citizen who last July sent explosive packages to Germany, Great Britain and Poland on the orders of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, was not a hired informant of the Russian special services and could have established contacts with them much earlier. An international investigative group of journalists, which included the LRT Investigations Department, found…
Russian Sabothetized Berlin "attirely watch" Moscow's methods
Berlin said on Wednesday "watch closely" the methods of sabotage of Moscow, after the publication of information in the press detailing the modus operandi of the Russian secret services in the case of incendiary parcels that shook Europe last summer.
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