The UK is investigating the potential Russian participation in the premeditated burning attacks

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British security officials are investigating whether Russia has been involved in three deliberate attacks on real estate -related real estate, according to Whitatol.

The attacks on the home of the Prime Minister in the United Kingdom in the city of Kantch, north of London, along with a car and residential property owned by the Prime Minister, earlier this month.

Two Ukrainian men and a Romanian citizen She was charged with her With conspiracy to commit an intentional fire with the intention of being at risk regarding fires. Police said the trio conspired with “others unknown.”

The Great Witaol figures said that UK officials are investigating whether the actors in Russia have recruited the trio of the start of fires. They said the discussions are on the best way to respond if this is the case.

Prosecutor Sarah Barzelska said at the court that the alleged plot is currently “not interpreted”. The anti -terrorist police, which leads the investigation, maintains an open mind around the motive.

Starmer said that the fires were “an attack on all of us, on democracy, and the values ​​we offer.”

Russia has climbed a campaign of sabotage and violence throughout Europe over the past 18 months, as the Moscow war erupted against Ukraine and western countries pressure the Russian economy with sanctions.

The UK was one of the strongest supporters of Ukraine under the departments of the conservatives and successive work.

Even if British officials ended that premeditated burning attacks arose in Russia, this does not necessarily mean that they were ordered by the Kremlin or that the suspects were aware of any Russian involvement.

The capital police in London refused to comment. While the Met Adterterrorism command leads the investigation, the three suspects were charged with criminal crimes instead of national security crimes.

One of the government officials has warned that many different publications of events are still under investigation and nothing has been excluded at this stage.

Downing Street refused to comment. Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, did not respond to the comment.

Western intelligence agencies have said in recent months that they have revealed Russian conspiracies to bomb aircraft, burn public buildings, chopped transport ties, and the assassination of prominent figures supporting Ukraine in its defense against Putin’s extensive invasion.

Russian intelligence agencies “have become a little brutality”, Richard MooreThe head of the United Kingdom’s Secret Intelligence Service, known widely as MI6, warned last October.

The attacks on major international politicians were already part of the campaign.

The local security agency in Estonia, ISS, said that Russian intelligence agents rented agents to break the car windows of the country’s interior minister last February.

The intelligence official said that Russia’s intention is to plant chaos, generate headlines and link European security agencies instead of causing serious harm to individuals.

The Starmer family’s home has been rented in the city of Kantic since his move to Downing Street after winning the authority of last July.

The official added that premeditated burning attacks were disturbingly reckless, because it may indicate that the Russian actors, if found that they were involved, were risking the events that were out of control.

None of the suspects who have been accused seem to have shown any ideological rapprochement with Russia, and one of them is a celebration of Ukrainian soldiers.

Three Men – Roman Ukrainians Lavrenovich, Petro Pochynok and Stanislav CarPIUC from Romania – are currently in reservation and they are set up on the next court on June 6.

Additional reports by Max Sidon