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00:02 Report by Shannon Redstall
00:05 March 20, 2024
00:08 November 17, 2025
00:43 November 17, 2025
01:03 Matthew Redhead | Russian hybrid warfare expert
01:18 Source: AP
01:35 March 20, 2024
01:47 January 31, 2025
02:00 Dominic Murphy | Metropolitan Police

Script:

((Archive images))
1" - An exploding package in Germany.

((20 March 2024))
4" - Arson in the UK. 

((train pics - 17 November 2025))
And ... a train carrying 500 people forced to make an emergency stop in Poland.

All examples of the 145 suspected Russian sabotage incidents tracked by the Associated Press since the beginning of the war in Ukraine in 2022.

((Moscow file pics??))
28" - Western officials say these are all part of a hybrid war the Kremlin is waging on Europe... aiming to weaken support for Ukraine, create divisions among Europeans and identify security weak spots.

((train pics - 17 November 2025))
42" - Most known sabotage acts, like the targeting of this Polish rail line, have not resulted in major damage or casualties - but they could have.

A bomb damaged the tracks and the overhead line was cut. But the hundreds of passengers were able to get off without injury.

NAME: Matthew Redhead, expert on Russian hybrid warfare at the Royal United Services Institute
IN: “I think the more important side of this is psychological, the psychological damage they are trying to inflict in terms of creating a sense of fear amongst populations because these things could result in mass casualties.
OUT: 16"

((MAP))
1.17" - Incidents have now been recorded in the majority of European countries... from Spain and Iceland in the west, to the countries directly bordering Russia... with authorities in Poland and Estonia recording the highest number. 

1.34" - Officials say the way Russia is conducting hybrid warefare has also changed... using foreigners with criminal backgrounds as cheap proxies for Russian intelligence operatives.

((31 Jan, 2025))
1.48" - Like this Moldovan man, who threw a can of petrol into a Ukranian restaurant in Estonia despite never having visited Estonia before.

NAME: Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the Metropolitan Police's counter-terrorism squad
IN: It's much more difficult for members of the GRU to come to the United Kingdom armed with a chemical nerve agent and try and assassinate somebody. So as a result, they've changed their method of operation, which is now to try and use criminal proxies to undertake that activity on their behalf." 
OUT: 17"

The leader of one European intelligence service said investigations into Russian interference now take up as much of the agency’s time as terrorism.

Russia denies having "any connection" to the incidents.

ENDS