Reuters: Russia arranged blow-ups of parcels with sex toys, Ukrainians involved
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Sat, 05 Apr 2025 14:55:09 +0300
Russian secret services are involved in a number of parcel blowups in European countries, in which Ukrainians were involved, among others.
Source European Pravda Reuters, citing a source familiar with the matter Details This case concerns last summers incident when three parcels detonated at courier warehouses in the UK, Germany and Poland.
Another parcel with explosives that failed to detonate was also found in a warehouse in Warsaw.
A person familiar with the case said that the pillows packed in the parcels with cosmetics and sex toys contained hidden improvised explosive devices made from a mix of chemicals, including highly reactive magnesium.
The source noted that the chemicals were set on fire with preinstalled detonators adapted to cheap Chinese electronic gadgets used to track things like lost keys, and the effect was enhanced by tubes of cosmetics that looked like beauty products but contained a gel made of flammable compounds, including nitromethane.
The proceedings in this case concern criminal activities inspired by Russias GRU Russias Main Intelligence Directorate ed., the source said.
The source said that the Polish prosecution is based on the testimony of at least five suspected members of the alleged sabotage group and classified conclusions of the security services.
As noted, the investigators have identified at least five suspected members of the alleged sabotage group who carried out the bombings.
The source told Reuters that one of them is Ukrainian Vladyslav Derkavets.
During interrogation, he said that he had received instructions via Telegram from a man with the nickname Warrior, whom he had been introduced to by a friend.
In the summer of 2024, he travelled to Lithuania, where he packed four parcels, each with a stuffed insert, as well as several tubes of cosmetics and sex toys.
Before packing the parcels, he pressed the delayed detonation buttons.
After that, the source said, Derkavets handed the packages to another man in a park in Vilnius, who gave him the code word Mary. He was arrested on suspicion of committing terrorist acts on the orders of Russian intelligence in August 2024.
He denies the charges.
Another suspect is 44yearold Russian Alexander Bezrukavy, whose task was to prepare for an attack on cargo planes flying to North America. To do this, he was to organise the sending of parcels of sneakers and clothes from Warsaw to Washington and Ottawa.
He also denies the charges against him.
Background In autumn, Poland reported that Russians were preparing terrorist attacks on DHL flights to the United States and the United Kingdom.
Moreover, at that time, Polish prosecutors announced the detention of four people in connection with this case.
The details of these charges were published in November by the US Wall Street Journal.
The article, based on sources and conversations with Western officials, claims that Russia was planning operations to set fire to transatlantic flights, both passenger and cargo, bound for the United States and Canada.
At the time, the journalists source claimed that the fires set by Russia in July at DHL logistics centres in Leipzig, Germany, and Birmingham, UK, were part of these operations. At the time of the incidents in Germany and the UK, the company and the authorities did not specify what caused the fires.
However, an American publication claims that devices with a flammable magnesiumbased mixture were built into the electric massagers.
The Russian trace of the attacks was stated.
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