Russia was preparing terrorist attacks on passenger aircraft in the US and Canada - WSJ

About it writes The Wall Street Journal. Journalists explained that these explosive devices exploded in DHL logistics centers in July 2024: one in Leipzig, Germany and the other in Birmingham, England. "Explosions caused multinational races to search for the culprits.

Now investigators and espionage agencies in Europe have found out how devices were made - electric massagers, filled with a flammable substance based on magnesium - and came to the conclusion that they were part of a wider Russian conspiracy," in the material. Explosive devices were masked by electrics and sent to the UK from Lithuania.

According to special services, it was an attempt to understand how it could be carried on board a passenger plane, which was heading to North America, an explosive. The authors of the material recalled that the search for the involvement was not only in Germany and England. In Poland, four people were arrested, accused of participating in sabotage or terrorist operations on behalf of foreign intelligence. Poland is currently cooperating with other countries to find at least two suspects.

"The purpose of the group was also to test the channel of transfer of such parcels, which were ultimately sent to the United States of America and Canada," the Poland Prosecutor's Office said. The United Kingdom is investigating the Birmingham explosion incident in cooperation with other law enforcement agencies in Europe. No one was arrested, said a spokesman for the country's counter -terrorist police.

In his turn, the head of the German internal security agency Thomas Haldenwang told the country that no one was injured due to a flight delay. He called it "a happy coincidence. " The Presidential President Vladimir Putin President Dmitry Peskov in response to the request of The Wall Street Journal stated that the Kremlin "never heard any official accusations" of Russia's involvement.