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Europe on high alert after suspected Moscow-linked arson and sabotage

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Security services are on alert to a potential new weapon of Russia ’s war arson and sabotage.

Investigators have already alleged potential Russian involvement in an arson attack in east London , an inferno that destroyed the largest shopping mall in Poland , a sabotage attempt in Bavaria in Germany and antisemitic graffiti in Paris .

Security services believe they could be part of an attempt by Moscow to destabilise the west, which has backed Ukraine .

Dutch defence minister, Kajsa Ollongren , said Russia was trying to intimidate’ Nato countries.

Nato ’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg , has also pointed the finger at Moscow .

“I think this has been a way that Russia and also the Soviet Union has worked throughout recent history, really,” she said.

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