{"id":7535,"date":"2026-08-23T16:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T16:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/7535\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T16:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T16:54:12","slug":"russia-has-stepped-up-sabotage-operations-against-arms-factories-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/7535\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia has stepped up sabotage operations against arms factories in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/images.cnscdn.com\/a\/8\/9\/3\/a89335cf591d8f5eb1c719de6642f4af\/original.webp\" class=\"top_img_loader\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787504052_124_300x173.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" alt=\"Russian acts of sabotage\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>According to Western intelligence reports, Russia has launched a new wave of sabotage operations against European companies that manufacture <a href=\"https:\/\/censor.net\/ua\/tag\/2040\/zbroya\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">weapons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a title=\"censor net \u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u043d\u0438\" href=\"https:\/\/censor.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Censor.NET<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Telegraph<\/a> reports this, citing sources within Western intelligence services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-news\">Read more on our <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/censor_net\">Telegram channel<\/a><\/p>\n<p> The Kremlin is trying to act discreetly <\/p>\n<p>According to sources, Russia is organising a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/censor.net\/ua\/tag\/6606\/dyversiya\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sabotage operations<\/a> at defence industry facilities in Europe, using tactics that allow it to avoid direct links to the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>According to intelligence reports, the Russian side is recruiting members of local criminal gangs to carry out attacks. The operations are planned in such a way that they do not reach a level that could trigger the application of Article 5 of the NATO Treaty on mutual defence.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Latvia arrested three of its citizens on suspicion of setting fire to a drone manufacturing plant in neighbouring Estonia.<\/p>\n<p>The building housing Milrem Robotics in Tallinn, a company that supplies weapons to Ukraine, <a href=\"https:\/\/censor.net\/ua\/news\/4019027\/estoniya-rozsliduye-prychetnist-rf-do-dyversiyi-na-pidpryyemstvi-scho-postachaye-nrk-ukrayini\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was set on fire on the night of 15 August<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-news\">See more: <a href=\"https:\/\/censor.net\/en\/photonews\/4018836\/ukraine-joins-nato-baltic-trust-2026-exercise-in-latvia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine took part in NATO drills in Latvia. PHOTOS<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Arson attacks on factories are being investigated for links to Russia <\/p>\n<p>Following the incident, the Estonian Prime Minister, Kristen Michal, stated that investigators were looking into whether the arson was an act of sabotage and whether Russia might have been involved.<\/p>\n<p>The arson attack on the Milrem Robotics building is being viewed in the context of a wider series of suspected or confirmed acts of sabotage targeting the supply chains for arms destined for Ukraine in NATO countries.<\/p>\n<p>According to Alliance officials, such actions by Russia are aimed at heightening tensions amongst the allies and at attempting to curb further support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>It was previously reported that\u00a0Russia may use the major 2027 election cycle to <a href=\"https:\/\/censor.net\/ua\/news\/4019537\/sybiga-poperedyv-pro-zagrozu-vtruchannya-rosiyi-u-vybory-v-yevropi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interfere in the internal affairs of European countries<\/a> and spread disinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Western intelligence reports, Russia has launched a new wave of sabotage operations against European companies that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4478,4477,14,60,3576,243,273],"class_list":["post-7535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-act-of-subversion","tag-attack","tag-defence-industry","tag-defense","tag-factory","tag-nato","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}