Russia recruits Danes for sabotage planning, Denmark says
PET said Russian intelligence has concrete sabotage plans against Danish defense firms that support Ukraine and has tried recruiting citizens through social media.
- On Thursday, Denmark's national security service, PET, revealed that Russia is recruiting Danish citizens to help plan sabotage against domestic defense firms with ties to Ukraine.
- "Russia is planning and carrying out acts of sabotage against defense companies," Emil Gresholm, head of PET counterintelligence, said, with Russian intelligence services actively preparing sabotage directed at the Danish defense industry.
- Russian agencies used social media and gaming platforms to recruit Danes for tasks including photographing infrastructure and companies, which could facilitate future sabotage operations, Gresholm said.
- Gresholm stressed that assisting Russian intelligence services is "extremely serious," whether citizens act deliberately or unwittingly, as the country faces heightened sabotage risks.
- Amid broader European concerns regarding hybrid warfare, a recent drone incident at Leipzig and Halle Airport in Germany prompted calls for new sanctions, though Moscow has denied any involvement in sabotage.
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The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) warned of concrete Russian preparations for sabotage.
Russia is actively preparing sabotage operations against Denmark, and especially its defense industry, the head of the Danish intelligence service, Emil Graesholm, said on Thursday.
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welingelichtekringen.nlCOPENHAGEN (ANP/RTR/AFP) - Russia is making preparations to carry out sabotage operations against the Danish defense sector. This warning comes from the Danish intelligence service PET, which says it has examples of Russian attempts to recruit "ordinary Danes" to help with this. Civilians are being...
Russia is actively preparing sabotage operations against Denmark, and especially against its defense industry, Danish counterintelligence director Emil Gresholm was quoted as saying by the French press, BTA reported. “The Russians are actively preparing sabotage operations, targeting the Danish defense industry,” Gresholm said in an interview with the Danish daily Berlingske. “It is essential that the defence industry, in the broadest sense, tak…
Emil Græsholm said the threat should be taken seriously: they have been informed of specific plans that he believes are cause for concern.
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