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ARTICLE VIEW:
2024 parcel blasts in Europe organized by Russians with intelligence
ties, Lithuania says
By Reuters
Updated:
3:02 PM EDT, Wed September 17, 2025
Source: Reuters
Detonations of parcels carried by DHL and DPD were organized and
supervised by citizens with ties to Russian military intelligence,
Lithuania’s general prosecution service and criminal police said on
Wednesday.
Security officials in Lithuania said last year the four parcels were
part of a test run for a Russian plot to trigger explosions on cargo
flights to the United States.
A joint statement by the two Lithuanian services said the parcels had
contained explosive devices that were set off by electronic timers
hidden in vibrating massage pillows.
It identified citizen Daniil Gromov, whose Russian documents were
issued under the name of Jaroslav Mikhailov, and Lithuanian-Russian
citizen Tomas Dovgan Stabacinskas as coordinators of the scheme.
The same two men organized a fire at an IKEA store in Vilnius in 2024,
it said.
“It was determined that the aforementioned individuals acted in an
organized manner, adhering to a very strict conspiracy, dividing
individual tasks,” the statement read.
There was no immediate response from Russia to the statement. Last
year, Russia denied orchestrating the IKEA fire and regularly dismisses
Western accusations of malign activity as
Governments and intelligence agencies in Europe have previously pointed
to Moscow as the likely source of a series of fires and acts of
sabotage aimed at destabilizing allies of Ukraine.
The Lithuanian statement said six kilograms of explosives had been
found during its investigation and that 15 people had been charged,
including citizens of Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine.
International search warrants were issued for three men – Gromov,
Stabacinskas and Russian citizen Andrej Baburov.
The statement said four parcels with “self-made, explosive-incendiary
charges” had been mailed from Vilnius on July 19, 2024.
One of them, sent with DHL, caught fire at Leipzig airport in eastern
Germany the next day, shortly before it was due to be loaded onto a DHL
plane bound for Britain.
A second parcel exploded on July 21 on a DPD truck as it was crossing
Poland, while the third detonated in a DHL warehouse in Birmingham,
England, on July 22. The fourth parcel, which was also being
transported on a DPD truck in Poland, failed to ignite due to a
malfunction.
The organizers and paid them in cryptocurrency, the statement said.
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