Russia recruits Danes for sabotage planning, Denmark says
PET said Russian intelligence has concrete sabotage plans against Danish defense firms that support Ukraine and has tried recruiting citizens through social media.
- On Thursday, Denmark's national security service, PET, revealed that Russia is recruiting Danish citizens to help plan sabotage against domestic defense firms with ties to Ukraine.
- "Russia is planning and carrying out acts of sabotage against defense companies," Emil Gresholm, head of PET counterintelligence, said, with Russian intelligence services actively preparing sabotage directed at the Danish defense industry.
- Russian agencies used social media and gaming platforms to recruit Danes for tasks including photographing infrastructure and companies, which could facilitate future sabotage operations, Gresholm said.
- Gresholm stressed that assisting Russian intelligence services is "extremely serious," whether citizens act deliberately or unwittingly, as the country faces heightened sabotage risks.
- Amid broader European concerns regarding hybrid warfare, a recent drone incident at Leipzig and Halle Airport in Germany prompted calls for new sanctions, though Moscow has denied any involvement in sabotage.
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Russia is actively preparing sabotage operations against Denmark, and especially against its defense industry, Danish counterintelligence director Emil Gresholm was quoted as saying by the French press, BTA reported. “The Russians are actively preparing sabotage operations, targeting the Danish defense industry,” Gresholm said in an interview with the Danish daily Berlingske. “It is essential that the defence industry, in the broadest sense, tak…
Emil Græsholm said the threat should be taken seriously: they have been informed of specific plans that he believes are cause for concern.
The Danish counter-intelligence claims that Russia is preparing sabotages aimed in particular at the defence industry and is seeking to recruit Danes. ...
Danish authorities have revealed plans and preparations for Russian sabotage in Denmark, the Berlingske newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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