Russia is more actively preparing bombings, arson attacks and attacks on infrastructure across Europe, say the Financial Times’ intelligence sources.
Russia is even more actively preparing sabotage attacks on, for example, infrastructure. Illustration picture. IL
The intelligence services of European countries have warned the governments of their countries about Russian sabotage attacks, reports the Financial Times.
Russia is even more actively preparing bombings, arson attacks and attacks on infrastructure across Europe, the financial newspaper says. According to intelligence sources, the attacks could be carried out by various proxies or directly by Russia itself, with little regard for civilian casualties.
Earlier, the Czech minister of transport has also warned about the same Martin Kupka.
Russia appears to have increased its hybrid threat activities in Europe recently, experts warn. One form of Russian hybrid activity is GPS jamming, which has already caused problems for air traffic since 2022.
On Thursday, NATO warned that Russia’s increased hybrid activity will be responded to “separately and together”. In its press release, NATO mentions sabotage attacks as one of Russia’s hybrid operation methods, in addition to GPS jamming.
For military targets and infrastructure
The Financial Times highlights numerous cases across Europe.
In April, a dual citizen of Germany and Russia was arrested in Bavaria on suspicion of planning a bomb attack on military targets and infrastructure.
– We estimate that the risk of state-led sabotage attacks has increased significantly, said the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence Thomas Haldenwang in April.
In Britain, two men are accused of setting fire to a warehouse containing Ukrainian aid.
In Sweden and the Czech Republic, on the other hand, derailments and disruptions related to railways are currently being investigated as state-led sabotage.
Estonia’s security service blames Russian intelligence for the attacks on the cars of the country’s interior minister and journalists.
Experts have also warned against Russian espionage.
At the end of April, an officer of the German Defense Forces was convicted of spying for Russia. The number of spies in Finland has also risen to Cold War levels.
The story was corrected on May 5, 2024 at 2:24 p.m.: The Financial Times is originally British, not American, as was originally claimed in the story.
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