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After stopping an arsonist, Czech police discover that Russia is running Telegram groups in EU countries offering locals money to commit arson and sabotage on factories, infrastructure and public transportation.

The police and secret services are solving an unprecedented case in the Czech Republic. A man from South America, who was detained by the police on Saturday evening, is suspected of having been hired to commit an attack on our territory. The daily newspaper N provides details of the current case and explains why, according to the security forces, Russia may be behind the attack.

On Friday, detectives from the first department of the Prague police called on the public to help them search for a man they suspected of a particularly serious crime. A day earlier, he was supposed to pour gasoline on buses in Prague 9, but they were not set on fire. The man fled the scene and police have been searching for him ever since.

Security forces were on high alert at the time due to...

"See lõhnab Venemaa järele. See näeb välja nagu Venemaa:

Euroopa uurijad näevad üha sagedamini Venemaa sõrmejälgi seoses hiljutiste kahtlustatavate strateegilise infrastruktuuri sabotaažiaktidega, kuid neil on raskusi reageerimisega. Võimalike rünnakute avastamine on üha keerulisem, sest Venemaa on pärast oma täiemahulist sissetungi Ukrainale kaks aastat tagasi pöördunud rohkem tsiviilisikute ja kaubalaevade poole, et uurida ja võimalusel rünnata kriitilist infrastruktuuri, nagu merealused ühendused, avamere energiarajatised, transpordivõrgud ja sõjavägi ütlevad juhtumitega tuttavad inimesed – kirjutab Wall Street Journal.

Saksamaa prokurörid pidasid eelmisel kuul kinni kaks Vene-Saksa topeltkodanikku, keda kahtlustatakse Moskva kasuks spioneerimises eesmärgiga häirida Lääne sõjalist abi Ukrainale sabotaaži kaudu.

Suurbritannia küberluureagentuur GCHQ on "üha enam mures Venemaa luureteenistuste ja volitatud rühmituste vaheliste sidemete suurenemise pärast küberrünnakute läbiviimiseks, aga ka kahtlustatavate füüsiliste jälitus- ja sabotaažioperatsioonide pärast," ütles selle direktor Anne Keast-Butler eelmisel nädalal.

Võimud usuvad, et Moskva kasutab luuramiseks ja sabotaažiks tsiviilvarustust. Norra julgeolekuteenistuse PST ametnik ütles, et Venemaa on viimastel aastatel rakendanud oma suurt kaubanduslikku kalalaevastikku ja ka mere-uuringute laevu luureteabe kogumiseks Arktikas, mis on seal paikneva tuumaallveelaevade strateegilise heidutuse jaoks ülioluline. Mõned laevad on moodsad üle 300 jala pikkused laevad, mis on varustatud sonari ja muu tehnoloogiaga, mis võimaldab neil merepõhja skaneerida, ütles ametnik.

7. oktoobril lahkus Hiinas registreeritud konteinerlaev Newnew Polar Bear Venemaa Läänemere sadamast Kaliningradist ja sõitis põhja. Vene meeskonna koosseisus ületas see torujuhtme ala samal ajal, kui ühendus katkes. Soome uurijad usuvad, et torujuhe lõikas läbi Newnew Polar Beari ankur. Kohe pärast torujuhtme läbilõikamist tuvastasid Soome ametiisikud laeva potentsiaalse süüdlasena, kuid neil ei õnnestunud seda läbi otsida, kuna see asus rahvusvahelistes vetes.

Saksamaal kahtlustavad ametnikud ja uurijad, et Venemaa võis olla rünnaku taga raudteele, mis peatas ajutiselt kogu raudteeliikluse riigi põhjaosas 2022. aasta oktoobris. Ründajad vigastasid nii raudtee põhisidevõrgu kui ka selle tagavaraühendust. Uurijate sõnul katkestati peaaegu samaaegselt kaks teineteisest ligikaudu 200 miili kaugusel asuvat andmekaablit. Uurijate sõnul oli see, kes sabotaaži läbi viis, võrguga üksikasjalikult kursis.

2022. aasta jaanuaris, kui Venemaa asus oma vägesid Ukrainat ründama, tuvastati selle läbilõikamise ajal suure fiiberoptilise kaabli kohal jäävett läbimas Vene kalatraaler. Kaabel edastas andmeid SvalSatist, mis on üks maailma suurimaid kommertssatelliitide maapealseid jaamu, mis asub Norra Svalbardi saarestikus kaugel põhjas.

Vene traaler ületas satelliitliiklusseire andmetel enam kui 100 korda kaabli läbilõikamise kohta, ütles juhtunut uurinud Tromsø linna prokurör Ronny André Jørgensen. Veealuse drooni kaadritest selgus, et merepõhja, kus kaabel läbi lõigati, oli kündnud kõva objekt, mille jäljed meenutavad Vene traaleri Melkart 5 varustusse kuuluvaid vahendeid

An explosion occurred in the rocket fuel center at the Mesko arms plant in Skarżysko Kamienna, Poland, - RMF24

"We have an explosion at the rocket fuel center, which was put into operation a few years ago", confirmed the plant's president.

An explosion in the Mesko arms factory in the southeastern Polish city of Skarzysko-Kamienna on June 10 started a fire and killed a 59-year-old worker, RMF 24 reported.

Another employee was hospitalized after inhaling smoke, but his life is not in danger, local authorities said.

"We had an explosion at the rocket fuel center, which was put into operation a few years ago," the plant's chair, Elzbieta Sreniawska, told RMF 24.

The company's services put out the fire and the incident's causes are currently being investigated.

This is not the first such tragic case to have taken place at the Mesko factory. In September 2021, an explosion killed a 41-year-old woman.

In yet another incident, a 48-year-old woman was seriously injured during a blast in April 2021, later dying due to her injuries.

Mesko, owned by state-run Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa SA, manufactures various defense products, including Grom and Piorun man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS), Spike-LR anti-tank missiles, and small arms ammunition.

Poland has provided extensive military support to Ukraine, leading to local arms factories significantly increasing production. Mesko signed a contract in 2022 for the supply of ammunition of various calibers to Ukraine.

Danish investigators have detained a Russian citizen suspected of having aided the operations of a foreign intelligence service, the Nordic country’s security police said on Tuesday.

The individual, who lived in Denmark, was being questioned on suspicion of breaching part of the penal code relating to influence operations, the Danish national security and intelligence service said in a statement.

The case was not related to the just-concluded elections to the European Parliament, it said.

The detainee, whose identity was not disclosed, was expected to be released after questioning.

NEW UPDATES ON RUSSIAN STATE TERRORISM IN PRAGUE:

- The 26-year old Colombian terrorist run by Russian intelligence first flew from Colombia to Warsaw. His handler tasked him via Telegram where Russian intelligence found him in a wider group where the Colombian was searching for (normal civilian) jobs. The Colombian was poor, had very basic military training, was a construction worker

- In Poland, he was tasked to „take photos of specific buildings“ and received up to 5 000 zloty in cash (some 1250 USD) by a proxy of Russian intelligence (so not a Russian inteligence offer himself, but an intermediary - in this case with Russian citizenship)

- then he flew to Prague where he was tasked to torch specific public transport buses with reward of 3000 USD. Russian intelligence told him it was a commercial plan - an insurance fraud where the Colombian burns the buses owned by a private businessman who will later claim insurance payments. In reality, these were Prague City Public Transport buses.

- individual Czech Parliamentarians are calling this „act of state terrorism by Russian Federation against the Czech Republic“.

- HOW DO WE KNOW? Czech Police and Czech intelligence agencies briefed Czech Parliament Security Committee in a classified session and four participants confirmed these details to Czech journalists (of @enkocz)

Russia continues terror operations in Europe with zero repercussions.

The fire at the Diehl Defense metallurgical plant in early May was the result of Russian sabotage.

“One of the foreign intelligence services informed the German intelligence services that the fire was the result of Russian sabotage. Foreign agents have concrete evidence of Russian involvement,” - Bild

Kolm meest arreteeriti Frankfurdis spionaaži kahtlustatuna, teatasid Saksamaa võimud reedel. Arreteeritud venelast, ukrainlast ja armeenlast süüdistatakse Ukraina kodaniku jälitamises.

Föderaalse Prokuratuuri teatel reisisid kolm kahtlusalust — venelane Arman S., armeenlane Vardges I. ja ukrainlane Robert A. — Saksamaale, et koguda teavet välisluureteenistuse jaoks.

Kolmikut, kes arreteeriti kolmapäeval, süüdistatakse Ukraina isiku jälgimises ja Frankfurdis asuvas kohvikus varitsemises, kus nende sihtmärk pidi viibima. Föderaalprokuratuur ei avaldanud, millise riigi luureteenistuse heaks mehed väidetavalt töötasid.

Euroopa valitsused ja luureteenistused on pärast Moskva täiemahulist sissetungi Ukrainasse 2022. aasta alguses muutunud üha murelikumaks spionaaži kasvu pärast. Vene luurajaid, kes sageli töötavad diplomaatilise katte all, on massiliselt välja saadetud.

Eelmisel nädalal kirjutasid kaheksa EL-i riigi välisministrid bloki kõrgemale esindajale, paludes piirata Vene diplomaatide ja nende perede vaba liikumist, et oluliselt kitsendada Vene agentide operatiivruumi.

NATO peasekretär Jens Stoltenberg lubas samuti karmistada meetmeid Vene spioonide vastu, sealhulgas kehtestada rangemad piirangud Vene luurepersonali suhtes kogu alliansis.

Finnish wellbeing services county issues national security warning notice to staff after two break-ins to water treatment facilities in southern Finland last week and a fake doctor trying to enter two health centers to plug in his laptop.

* relayed the notice. Original is from Southern Finland preparedness centre for healthcare and social welfare.

Pretty certain that all authorities in Finland have eyes on the ball on this.

The Welfare Region of Varsinais-Finland has sent a warning message to its staff about the national security situation, reports Turku Sanomat .

According to the warning message, Southern Finland's preparedness center has told that two water treatment plants located in its area have been broken into last week. The message says that the police are investigating the cases.

Turku Sanomat also reports information containing a warning about a fake doctor who has tried to enter two health centers. The person has stated that he was a new doctor at the health center and wanted to connect his laptop to the fixed network of the health center.

According to Turku Sanomat, neither of the two health centers is located in the Varha area.

The Mandiat information security company said in the spring that Russia has tampered with the systems of water utilities in Western countries, at least in the United States, France and Poland.

Around the same time, the Finnish information security company Withsecure reported that Russian military intelligence had carried out a cyber attack on an Estonian logistics company.

There is no information on whether the cases reported by Turku Sanomat involve any kind of sabotage.

The preparedness center warned: a fake doctor who broke into two water treatment plants, aimed at health stations, tried to connect his laptop to the network

Yupp I got it right, in the interview of Tampere Water CEO says he's aware of the other two break-ins to water treatment facilities.

Two water infrastucture sites in Tampere were broken into during last couple weeks, a water tower and pressure increasing station.

In tower the actual water holding area was not breached and at the pumping station no visible damage (hope they checked the IT infra really well for planted logic bombs and backdoors).

Apparently alarms were triggered and security was on site quickly.

Porvoo Water Services previosly put out a presser that their backup water intake facility was broken into twice before mid June, in both cases workers noticed it only in the morning.

Sounds like yet another incident. (articke updated)

Yet another breach into water tower in Finland, this time in Kangasala. During June. Again just thru door not into water reservoir area.

A Sliva rescue tug is patrolling Swedens west coast.

Last summer, in June, the patrol was together with Buyan-M corvette. See pic next post.

All pics: Kurt Pedersen, FB Under Broen. Last summer.

8784kHz CW. At 1802UTC Russian Naval vessel - Sliva class rescue tug Evgeniy Churov (SB-921)-RMEV-sent weather/position report indicating that it was at 57.0N 11.7E and was travelling SE at 6-10 knots. The vessel had previously been stationary at 57.6N 11.1E since 27 June.

Sliva class rescue tug Evgeniy Churov (SB-921) passed Great Belt northwards June 26th @ 0930Z.

OOA activity - Breaking

A UI Russian Navy Baltic Fleet Pr.22800 class corvette & a UI Pr.21630/21631 class corvette departed the Baltic Sea, 26 June 2024 with tug “Evgeniy Churov”.

Vessels may conduct ASuW Ops in the NSEA/NLANT however, one could escort Primorsky Prospect.

Water supply facilities were broken into during the summer in various parts of Finland (in FIN, use google translate)

Map makes this quite clear, two major urban areas - Helsinki and Tampere - are being probed.