It was almost midnight when a truck driver resting in his cab heard the crackling of flames at a warehouse in east London storing equipment for Ukraine. About 30 minutes after the fire started, Dylan Earl, a British man who admitted to organizing the arson, received a message from a man U.K. authorities say was his Russian handler. On Tuesday, a British court found three men guilty of arson in the March 2024 plot that prosecutors said was masterminded by Russia’s intelligence services — part of a campaign of disruption across Europe that Western officials blame on Moscow and its proxies.
  • catty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Because that would piss putin off and the UK always backtracks when that’s possible, with ministers even publicly apologising to him on tv news.

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      3 days ago

      I dont really care what the UK and its politicians do or say. The press though should tell things as they are.

      On further research though, the operation was to hinder an operation or at least create inconvenience. It does not seem to have any ideological, social or political purpose

      Sabotage is typically the deliberate destruction or damage of property or resources to hinder an operation, while terrorism is the use of violence and intimidation to achieve political, ideological, or social goals.