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Russia was suspected of preparing fires on civil aircraft
The two devices that caught fire at DHL warehouses may have caught fire on board passenger or cargo planes flying to the United States and Canada. This is part of a “Russian campaign of sabotage against Washington and its allies,” Western intelligence sources told The Wall Street Journal.
The devices ignited at logistics centers of the transport company DHL in May and July: one in a warehouse in Birmingham, Britain, and another at Leipzig Airport in Germany. The two fires set off an international “race to find someone to blame,” the WSJ writes.
Representatives of Western intelligence services believe that the arson at the warehouses was organized by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the publication reported. The two fires were intended to test whether fires could be set on board civilian aircraft flying to North America, WSJ sources said.
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Russian intelligence services checked the transmission channels for such packages to the United States and Canada, the National Prosecutor's Office of Poland told reporters. The head of the Polish Intelligence Agency, Pawel Szota, told the WSJ that Russian intelligence services were preparing targeted sabotage. Unnamed representatives of the intelligence services of other Western countries agreed with him, journalists reported.
Polish intelligence services detained four people on suspicion of preparing these acts of sabotage, WSJ interlocutors said. The names of those detained are not disclosed.
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German police told reporters that it would have been difficult to extinguish the devices that caught fire in Leipzig and Birmingham using fire systems on board the plane. The ignited substance contained magnesium, police explained. He was inside the electric massagers that caught fire at both DHL warehouses. To cope with the burning magnesium, an emergency landing would have to be made, and this is “difficult to do over the ocean.”
WSJ interlocutors said that they do not know the answer to the question: whether the operation of the special services was authorized by the Kremlin. After all, provoked plane crashes could cause a serious escalation of the conflict between Russia and the West, the publication’s sources added.
The package caught fire in Leipzig shortly before the plane took off, and in Birmingham - after it was delivered on a flight from Lithuania. The UK National Counterterrorism Office was checking the involvement of Russian spies in the fire, The Guardian wrote .
Bloomberg wrote , citing European officials, that EU authorities are concerned about the growing number of sabotage acts carried out by Russian intelligence services.
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