Russia's GRU Behind Airport Parcel Bombing Plot, European Intelligence Believes

Packages with sets of fires explode in Leipzig and Warsaw. Security authorities suspect Russian sabotage acts. An ARD document sheds light on the background

Russia's GRU Behind Airport Parcel Bombing Plot, European Intelligence Believes

European intelligence agencies believe that Russia’s GRU military intelligence service was behind a series of cargo package explosions at airports in Germany, Poland and Britain last summer, German media reported Wednesday.

In the summer of last year, DHL packages were on fire in several countries. According to media reports, they were Russian sabotage. The Russian Embassy in Berlin speaks of "conspiracy theories".

The suspicion that Russia is responsible for parcel bombs in air cargo, which had appeared in Leipzig last year, among other things, has hardened: a trail leads to the Russian military intelligence service GRU. An airplane crash was probably prevented in the summer only by a lucky coincidence. According to research by WDR, NDR and "Süddeutscher Zeitung" (SZ), which were published on Wednesday, Western intelligence services could connect several …

Investigators seem to be responsible for the Russian military intelligence service GRU for the fire sets in air cargo packages in Europe that were set off last year.

In the summer of 2024 several parcel shipments burned in Leipzig, England and Poland. According to research by German media, the Russian secret service GRU could be behind it.