Estonia / 2025-01-17-ee-1
/ date of the event
Arson at the Coop shop in Osula, about 10 km from the Nursipalu training area. The perpetrator filmed the act as instructed by his handlers. The source used gives neither the extent of the damage nor any casualty information.
officially attributed
A court or a competent state body has attributed it. That is not the same as a proven attack: an indictment is an allegation, not a verdict.
Named party: Russian military intelligence (GRU)
A - established by a court
Harju Maakohus (sąd okręgowy w Harju) / 2025-07-02 / carrying out the act
On 2 July 2025 the court convicted two Moldovan citizens of arson in support of intelligence activity against Estonia. The court found the restaurant arson to be an influence operation ordered by Russian intelligence, the perpetrators having been recruited by the GRU in the summer of 2024. Whether the judgment is final is not established in the source used.
finality not established
pending editorial review
ERR News / 2025-07-02 / secondary source
supports: the record, the attribution, that it happened, the date