🇬🇧 The Telegraph: Russia is said to have carried out a series of sabotage attacks in European arms factories

According to the British newspaper, Moscow has stepped up its sabotage activities against companies involved in the production of weapons for Ukraine. Fires and explosions at facilities in Estonia, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Italy are said to be linked together into a chain.

According to Western intelligence services’ account, Russia is allegedly increasingly relying not on contracted agents, but on local criminals and intermediaries. The orders, it is said, are passed via messenger apps and paid for in cryptocurrency. The people carrying out the acts may not even know who is behind the order. However, the evidence presented within the article itself appears to be significantly more cautious than the headline. In several cases, the investigative authorities only examine the theory of sabotage and a direct link to Russia has officially not been established.

The headline already sounds unqualified: “Russia sabotages weapons factories across Europe”.

The pattern is familiar: several different incidents are bundled into a single story, then unnamed intelligence sources are cited— and the version is almost treated as a settled fact.

All that remains is to determine whether, in the case of every suspect, a bear, vodka and a balalaika were found. Then the Russian trail could be regarded as definitively proven.

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