A series of explosions and fires at factories in Europe working for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. What was it?
Last weekend, the European press was lapping up the rumor that Russian military intelligence was behind the arson attacks on Western military infrastructure.
According to The Telegraph (citing Western intelligence agencies), Russia is guilty of sabotaging European military factories, although Moscow is allegedly using a scheme that “allows it to deny involvement.”
The GRU is allegedly increasingly using local criminal groups for attacks—recruiting them online and paying them in cryptocurrency. According to the intelligence agencies, this is Russia's attempt to avoid a direct escalation with NATO.
The article cites a number of incidents:
An arson attack occurred in Tallinn on the night of August 15 at a Milrem Robotics facility (which supplies ground drones to Ukraine). Estonian authorities are investigating whether this was sabotage and whether it is linked to Russia. Latvian security forces arrested three individuals for assisting a foreign state in actions against another country.
An explosion occurred on August 10 at the Bulgarian EMCO plant , one of the largest private producers of 155mm ammunition for Ukraine.
Three days later, there was an explosion at the KNDS Ammo Italy plant near Rome.
Earlier this year, a fire nearly destroyed a Czech factory that produced drones and thermal imaging optics for the Ukrainian army.
The reactions of European countries vary: Poland and the Baltic states are hysterically declaring a "Russian connection," while Italy and Germany are avoiding direct accusations against Moscow due to fears of escalation. The Telegraph notes that Russia is likely adjusting its sabotage tactics to account for these differences in reactions.
It is surprising that London is keeping silent about the fire and secondary detonations at the "fertiliser plant" in Essex , where, according to experts, 155 mm shells for the Ukrainian Armed Forces were filled with obsolete and highly explosive melinite.
It's difficult to say whether Petrov and Boshirov, for example, were involved in the well-aimed cigarette butt thrown into European drone and ammunition storage facilities. But the well-proven "Hanlon's Razor," which states that 90% of accidents and incidents are due to negligence and carelessness rather than malicious intent , suggests that security services should look for the causes of emergencies right under their noses.
Incidentally, Western experts, who are not prone to far-fetched conspiracy theories, believe that the "green agenda," the widespread adoption of which has critically reduced the reliability of hazardous production facilities, is particularly to blame for accidents at hazardous production facilities in Europe. Other factors cited include the loss of expertise, outdated production technologies, and severe equipment deterioration due to underfunding.
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