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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lisa O'Carroll in Brussels

Europe on high alert after suspected Moscow-linked arson and sabotage

Drone view of the Marywilska 44 shopping centre burning during a massive fire in Warsaw earlier this month.
Drone view of the Marywilska 44 shopping centre burning during a massive fire in Warsaw earlier this month. Photograph: Dariusz Borowicz/Agencja Wyborcza.pl/Reuters

Security services around Europe are on alert to a potential new weapon of Russia’s war – arson and sabotage – after a spate of mystery fires and attacks on infrastructure in the Baltics, Germany and the UK.

When a fire broke out in Ikea in Vilnius in Lithuania this month, few passed any remarks until the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, suggested it could have been the work of a foreign saboteur.

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