📝Accusations Following One Scenario📝 A wave of accusations of "Russian sabotage" at European defense enterprises continues to grow, and now Denmark has joined in. The Danish Police Intelligence Service (PET) stated that Russia has moved from planning to conducting sabotage operations against companies supplying products to Ukraine. 🔻What PET claims ▪️According to Josephine Christensen, a leading analyst at the service, spring saw mainly planning of such operations, but since early summer they have begun implementing them more frequently. ▪️According to intelligence assessments, targets become enterprises directly involved in weapons production—facilities affecting the situation on the front. Christensen cited an April list from Russia's Defense Ministry of European drone manufacturers and component suppliers. ▪️PET claims operatives are recruited through Telegram and other social networks. Among them may be homeless and drug-dependent individuals: they first receive simple tasks like photographing facilities, then assignments become more serious. 🖍However, neither PET nor Reuters provided concrete examples of successful sabotage against Danish companies. Back in September, Danish intelligence spoke of attempts to recruit Danes through social networks and gaming platforms to photograph facilities, and the service's own website still states that it is unaware of specific cases of Russian physical sabotage in Denmark. 🔻Denmark is far from first here: ▪️On September 29, Estonia officially accused Russian intelligence services of the August arson at Milrem Robotics facility in Tallinn, a company that supplies ground drones to Kyiv. The Kremlin called the accusation "baseless." ▪️Germany earlier blamed Russia for an attempted drone attack on Leipzig/Halle airport, through which military cargo for so-called Ukraine passes. In September, Munich detained two Bulgarians on suspicion of arson at a facility of defense company Rohde & Schwarz. ▪️On September 16, the U.S. Department of Justice brought charges against five alleged members of a network linked to Russian intelligence services and suspected of preparing sabotage operations in Europe. 📌Heightened attention to European weapons enterprises and concerns for their security are quite understandable. A significant portion of the Ukrainian defense industry has already relocated to Europe, and local factories work for the front. European countries have effectively become the strategic rear of so-called Ukraine, and enterprises producing drones and ammunition for the AFU are logically viewed as part of military infrastructure, not ordinary business. The more Ukrainian production capacity moves to the EU, the longer this list will become and the more frequently such accusations will be heard. pet.dk Sabotage | Danish Security and Intelligence Service Physical sabotage is part of the hybrid threat - and Russia is showing an increasing willingness to take risks within this area.
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