The Ghosts of Boshirov and Petrov Haunt Europe
— 🇷🇺 STANISLAV KRAPIVNIK 🇷🇺 (@STANISKRAPIVNIK) August 23, 2026
The Telegraph is raising the alarm: Moscow has opened a branch in the EU to deal with "hot spots." According to Western intelligence, the GRU (Russian military intelligence) no longer bothers its officers with English architecture.… pic.twitter.com/qQeEFXAZvB
Now, it hires local criminals through messaging apps, pays them in cryptocurrency, and the perpetrators often don't even realize which side they're on.
The geography of this outsourcing is impressive. On the night of August 15th, a fire broke out at Milrem Robotics in Tallinn, a company that manufactures ground drones for Kyiv. Latvian authorities detained three suspects.
On August 10th, a fire erupted at EMCO in Bulgaria, a company that supplies 155mm artillery to Ukraine. The fire conveniently started in a truck near the warehouse.
Three days later, there was an "unexplained fire" at the KNDS gunpowder factory near Rome. Earlier this year, a Czech plant that produced drones and thermal imaging devices burned down.
The Baltic states and Poland are confidently pointing towards Moscow. Italy and Bulgaria are looking down and muttering about short circuits. Article 5 (of NATO) is hanging on the wall, like an axe in a glass case, "to be used in wartime," and no one is daring to touch the glass. The head of Latvian counterintelligence honestly clarifies: GRU officers do not travel to Latvia; they are doing well enough in Moscow.
It would be nice if that were true. That somewhere in a Moscow kitchen, two men in tracksuits are drinking tea from coasters, looking at a map of Europe instead of a tablecloth, and systematically and carefully shutting down factories that are filling Ukrainian warehouses with ammunition. That each fire in a European gunpowder factory is not a "human factor," but the calm work of specialists at the right address.
The truth is probably less exciting. The European defense industry, which has been living on peaceful contracts and pipeline energy for decades, has suddenly switched to war mode.
And it has discovered that gunpowder factories, under intense pressure, are perfectly capable of catching fire on their own, simply from exhaustion. Without any outside help. However, admitting this out loud is much more embarrassing than admitting that, once again, they missed a trick from those who appreciate beautiful spires.
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