Moscow is suspected of preparing explosions on cargo flights

Security officials in several EU countries say recent package bombings at logistics warehouses were a practice for carrying out bombings on cargo flights to the United States. About this writes Reuters.

Western governments and intelligence agencies in Europe have previously pointed to Moscow as the source of a series of fires and acts of sabotage in Europe aimed at destabilizing Ukraine’s allies.
However, explosions at courier warehouses in the UK, Germany and Poland in July this year, which an adviser to the Lithuanian president said were the work of Russia, could have caused a serious escalation by causing an explosion on an airplane.

Russia is responsible for an operation aimed at setting fire to cargo or passenger planes heading to North America. About this writes The Wall Street Journal, citing Western security officials.

The newspaper reported on November 5 that the devices, which burst into flames in July at warehouses of the global courier service DHL in the British city of Birmingham and the German city of Leipzig, were part of a “test” of the effectiveness of the “Russian plot.”

Last month, Polish authorities said four people had been detained as part of an investigation into the cause of the parcel fire. The incident occurred during the delivery of a parcel to Europe for its further travel to the USA and Canada.

The group’s activities consisted of sabotage and sabotage on postal routes between the countries of the European Union and the UK. The contents of the parcels caught fire or exploded during land and air transport, Polish prosecutors said on October 25. The statement refers to “foreign intelligence services” without directly blaming Russia.

Reuters quoted Kestutis Budrys, national security adviser to Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda. On November 5, Budrys said the parcels were “part of unconventional Russian military intelligence operations against NATO countries.”

Moscow has not yet commented on publications and official statements that appeared in the West.

Article in The Wall Street Journal appeared on the day US voters cast ballots in the presidential election. However, the American publication does not directly link the revealed facts with the voting.