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United Kingdom / 2024-07-22-gb-1

Birmingham: parcel explosion at a DHL depot

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What happened

A parcel detonated at a DHL transport warehouse in Birmingham, after it had left the airport. The source used gives neither the extent of the damage nor any casualty information.

Responsibility and limits of the evidence

suspected

Someone has named a perpetrator, but this is neither a court finding nor a formal attribution by a state.

Named party: GRU (Russian military intelligence)

D - documented journalistic investigation

VSquare i partnerzy śledczy / 2024-11-01 / carrying out the act

A journalistic investigation attributes the series of parcel fires to Russian military intelligence. The publication cites the Lithuanian prosecutor's office, which named three suspects publicly, a joint investigation team coordinated by Eurojust, and unnamed security sources. I have not read those documents, so the grade stays journalistic rather than official. No verdict has been reached on the parcel explosions themselves.

Impact

killed
not established
injured
not established
damage
not established

pending editorial review

Sources

  1. Revealed: how Russia's GRU plotted the Europe parcel explosions

    VSquare / primary source

    supports: the record, the attribution, that it happened, the date