This article was reprinted with permission after being published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
The fatal accident of a cargo planes in Lithuania on November 25 may have been a “hybrid affair” with outsiders, according to German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.
At a G7 foreign ministers meet in Italy, Baerbock urged reporters to” really consider whether this was an incident” or whether it was another “hybrid incident.”
” We have just seen many hybrid attacks in Europe, often targeting people and facilities, whether underwater or painful infrastructure”, she said, alluding to the recent , severing , of telecommunication cables in the Baltic Sea that officials have said could have been damage.
She continued,” German regulators are working very closely with the Ukrainian authorities to unravel the fall.”
The Ukrainian government has so far avoided making the exact connection.
” We don’t dismiss the possibility of terrorism…. However, because we do n’t have such information, we ca n’t make attributions or point fingers right now, according to Lithuanian counterintelligence chief Darius Jauniskis.
The pilots ‘ communications with the power castle, according to Marius Baranauskas, mind of the Lithuanian National Aviation Authority, were nothing remarkable, adding that researchers need to check the aircraft’s black-box tapes.
Moscow has been accused of participating in destroy operations in Europe by numerous Western intelligence agencies, which it claims are aimed at destabilizing Ukraine’s allies because it depends on European governments to fight Russia’s full-scale war.
The cargo aircraft, which belonged to international mail Courier, crashed as it attempted to get at Vilnius aircraft, killing the plane’s Spanish captain and injuring another Hispanic team member, a German, and a Lithuanian, according to airport and police officials cited by Reuters. One of the injured was at least in important issue.
The plane, a Boeing 737-400 plane that had departed Leipzig, Germany, about 90 days before the collision, hit several houses as it skidded plenty meters, according to the authorities and DHL. According to a spokesperson for the government’s National Crisis Management Center, a house was one of the buildings that was damaged, despite the government’s purported claim that it was intact.
Authorities were still searching for the black boxes that house flight data, and firefighters were unable to determine whether the aircraft started burning or disintegrating while it was still in flight.
The cause of the crash, according to a DHL statement, was unknown at the time of the crash, which occurred about 1 km from the Vilnius airport.
Arunas Paulauskas, the Lithuanian commissioner-general of police, claimed that the cabin’s survivors told investigators that there had n’t been any smoke, fire, or other urgent circumstances prior to the collision. Additionally, he claimed that there was little chance of an external force striking.
Following a string of fires over the summer at DHL depots in Germany and Britain, the crash occurred. In a news release earlier this month, Western security officials claimed that the fires were the result of a test flight of an alleged Russian operation that aimed to ignite fires on cargo or passenger aircraft heading for North America.
Security officials claimed that the test run included devices that exploded in DHL depots in Leipzig and Birmingham, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
According to Polish officials, four people were detained as a result of the investigation into parcels that caught fire while traveling through the United States and Canada last month.
According to Polish prosecutors in a statement  on October 25, the four people’s actions” consisted of sabotage and diversion related to sending parcels containing camouflaged explosives and dangerous materials via courier companies to European Union countries and Great Britain, which spontaneously ignited or detonated during land and air transport.”
The group’s goal was to test the transfer channel for the parcels, which were ultimately delivered to the United States of America and Canada, according to the statement, adding that foreign intelligence services were to blame. Russia was n’t directly accused of involvement in the statement.
Following the announcement of his arrests, Canada expressed concern for Russian officials in early November. On November 8, Russia responded by calling a Canadian diplomat to refute claims that the country’s secret services planned the explosive package campaign.
