< IMG SRC = "/Uploads/Blogs/90/B4/IB -FRKPO6L2r_EA2A6BBB1.jpg" Alt = "Russians actively recruit Ukrainian teenagers for sabotage in Europe - NYT"/> < p > Russians recruit Ukrainian teenagers for sabotage not only in Ukraine but also in Europe. According to the Center for Strategic and International Research, a large number of shopping centers, warehouses, submarines and railways have been injured in Europe. Many of these sabotages are associated with attempts by Russian military intelligence to sow chaos, writes The New York Times.
< p >It is noted that one of the Ukrainian teenagers recruited by the Russian Federation was 17-year-old Danilo Bardadim, who left Ukraine from Ukraine to Poland. At the beginning of 2024, he was instructed to set fire to IKEA, promising a BMW car and about $ 11,000 in cash. As a result, he got an old car, but not money. Law enforcement officers quickly went out to the teenager, causing him to be prisoners in Lithuania for a number of allegations of terrorism.< p > The publication shared that from 2023 to 2024 the number of secret Russian sabotage in Europe increased almost three times. Because of this, European leaders are concerned about the invasion of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin into Ukraine is part of a wider offensive.
< p > “We have already entered the area of hostilities in Europe. Their (Russian – UNIAN) goal is to create chaos, sow distrust and panic, as well as undermine public support for assistance to Ukraine. Welcome to the Third World War,” Yunishkis.
< p >Journalists said that the crime, which was accused of Bardadim, occurred in May 2024. Then in the middle of the night an inflammatory device laid in Ikea in Vilnius. Later, the police stopped the bus, which he drove from Lithuania to neighboring Latvia and arrested him. Among the teenager's things found ignition devices that, according to investigators, were to be used in another arson in Riga.
< P > Bais, investigation showed that Bardadim used storage cameras at the Vilnius Station for storing a bag of explosives, six mobile phones, four detonators and two vibrators whose purpose was unclear. < p > Lithuanian investigators believe that people involved in Russian sabotages in Europe are mostly motivated by money. The chief prosecutor Arthras Urbelis assured that the Russians were looking for inexperienced young people who, through war in Ukraine, were in a difficult financial situation, emphasized in the publication.
~ < P > Lithuanian investigators also found that Russians recruit people with the Telegram messenger and its Chinese analogue ZENGI. In the most dangerous sabotage operations used ignition devices disguised as innocent parcels. For example, in July 2024, a parcel sent from Vilnius to Germany broke out in the center of processing in Leipzig, recalled in the edition.
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