Lithuania Urges Europe to Designate the GRU and Other Russian Special Services as Terrorist Organizations
The head of Lithuanian diplomacy, Kęstutis Budrys, stated that arson attacks organized by Moscow in European countries can no longer be referred to by the mild term "hybrid activity."
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Kęstutis Budrys put forward an initiative on Sunday, November 15, on the social network X to officially include Russian military intelligence and other Russian security agencies in the European list of terrorist organizations.
The Lithuanian minister congratulated Estonia's special services and law enforcement agencies on promptly thwarting a sabotage operation against the defense company Threod Systems and noted that the perpetrators left direct evidence of the involvement of Russian handlers.
“Russia is no longer hiding behind proxies. Fingerprints lead directly to the GRU. When a state intelligence service organizes arson attacks in Europe, this is not ‘hybrid activity.’ It is state-sponsored terrorism. Time to stop hiding behind euphemisms. Europe must seriously consider designating the GRU and other Russian intelligence and security services involved in sabotage operations as terrorist organizations,” Budrys wrote.
According to the head of the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow is shifting to sabotage in the rear of Western countries due to its own defeats on the battlefield: unable to break Ukraine's resistance, the Kremlin is attempting to intimidate and destabilize European societies. Budrys expressed solidarity with his Estonian counterpart Margus Tsahkna and emphasized that every act of Russian sabotage in Europe must carry an increasingly higher price for Russia.
What happened in Estonia
Vilnius's statement came after the Estonian Internal Security Service and the Prosecutor's Office revealed details of a nighttime attack on a Threod Systems plant in the Viimsi municipality near Tallinn, which produces reconnaissance drones and optical systems. The incident occurred on November 14 at 03:06: the attackers attempted to trigger an explosion and set fire to the production building, but were thwarted by the facility's security.
Acting on fresh leads, Estonian law enforcement officers, with assistance from colleagues in Latvia, detained eight suspects—all of whom are residents of Latvia; the prosecution requested that the court remand five of them in custody. According to Estonian counterintelligence, the attack was organized directly on orders from the GRU. In response to the sabotage, the Estonian government announced that starting December 1, 2026, it will close all checkpoints on its border with Russia.
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