“Series of suspected Russian sabotage attacks in Europe raise concerns of Putin involvement in Heathrow fire”

PUTIN has unleashed a spate of chilling sabotage attacks across Europe – and it’s feared the Heathrow blaze was his latest ploy.

A new map from The Sun shows how Vlad has peppered the continent with arson, bombs plots, “air terror”, cyber attacks and assassination plans.

A Ukrainian-owned warehouse in east London was set alight in March 2024, and Brit Dylan Earl has admitted arranging it.

The court heard that he paid a gang to spark the blaze under instruction from the fearsome Russian Wagner mercenary group.

Then, in July, a letter bomb was planted on a plane to Britain – setting fire to a DHL warehouse in Birmingham when it detonated.

Leipzig in Germany was also hit with a series of booby-trapped parcels, with Russia the prime suspect.

A flammable substance was reportedly hidden in electric massage devices.

Poland arrested four people in relation to the devious scheme, which is thought to have been a trial run for more postal bombs destined for the US.

Elsewhere, a DHL jet plummeted from Lithuania’s skies and erupted into a fireball in November 2024.

Lithuania’s president Gitanas Nausėda said that almost every plane crash should be checked for Russian interference going forwards.

Poland’s Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, affirmed the concerns regarding Russia’s intentions of carrying out acts of air terrorism, not only targeting Poland but also posing a threat to airlines globally.

An arson attack in Latvia in February last year has separately been linked to Russia.

A Molotov cocktail was lobbed through the window of Latvia’s Museum of the Occupation – a reminder of the country falling under Soviet control.

There have also been a number of foiled assassination attempts across the continent traced back to Russia.

A plan to kill Armin Papperger, the head of a German arms manufacturer, was foiled by US intelligence services in July 2024.

And Russia also chalked up a plan to take out Ukraine‘s president Zelensky when he visited Poland in April.

A potentially-devastating plot to bomb France‘s D-Day 80th anniversary celebrations in June last year was thankfully foiled.

A former Russian soldier set off an explosive made with “Mother of Satan” chemicals in a hotel room, and French cops

Lithuanian authorities this week accused Russia of being behind a plot to firebomb an Ikea store last May in the capital Vilnius.

Two “disposable agents” are said to have hidden explosives amongst flammable products and set it off overnight.

The Ukrainian nationals, one of whom was a teen, were reportedly bribed with a BMW and €10,000.

Prosecutors believe Russia’s warped logic behind the attack was that Ikea‘s logo uses the same colours as the Ukrainian flag.

Officials connected Russia’s Vilnius plot to an enormous blaze three days later that destroyed Poland’s largest shopping centre.

Donald Tusk welcomed the investigation, saying it had “confirmed [their] suspicions” that the Russians masterminded the two attacks.

And multiple vital undersea internet cables have been mysteriously severed in European waters.

The latest was the Estlink-2 cable in the Baltic Sea – supposedly accidentally cut by a ship’s anchor on Christmas Day 2024.

Russia’s spies have also infected the Europe‘s digital network with disruptive cyber attacks.

The governments of Germany and the Czech Republic were both hit with cyber assaults on the same day – May 3, 2024.

And Norwegian government websites were rendered unusable for a full day back in 2022.