NYT: USA Delivers Putin Message After Which Sabotage Stop
10- 15.01.2025, 5:03
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The White House held a series of meetings due to a series of parcel fires in Germany, the UK and Poland.
The White House held a series of meetings due to a series of parcel fires in Germany, the UK and Poland. As a result, Washington handed Russian dictator Vladimir Putin a warning about ‘inadmissibility of sending such devices by plane to the United States’.
This was reported by The New York Times on Monday, 13 January, citing five sources.
Joe Biden's administration officials are concerned that the Russian military, angered by Ukrainian strikes against military targets in Kursk and other regions of Russia, are now ‘intending to take the conflict to Europe and America’.
‘But they want to do it through methods that won't lead to a full conflict with NATO,’ the NYT source noted.
Thus, U.S. officials have concluded that the parcel incidents are part of a GRU operation to investigate shipping logistics in Europe. The intercepted conversations of GRU officers confirmed that the devices were intended to track which way the parcels were travelling and to calculate the exact ignition time of the magnesium-based material.
According to the publication, the next step could have been to send the parcels to the US and Canada. Since some of the shipments are transported by passenger planes, the risk of ignition in the air posed a threat to passengers.
‘The risk of a catastrophic error was obvious, they could have burst into flames in a fully loaded plane,’ said US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The White House has been trying to determine whether Putin was personally involved in the incidents. Several U.S. officials suggested the initiative belonged to individual GRU officers who were acting under general orders to pressure the U.S. and NATO.
Following the meetings, the warning to Putin's top aides was conveyed through Joe Biden's adviser Jake Sullivan and CIA Director William Burns. The main message was that in the event of a tragedy, the Kremlin would be accused of aiding terrorism, NYT reported.
US officials also said that Putin had received the signal and probably stopped the programme. However, as the newspaper notes, it is not clear whether this is a final decision or just a temporary pause. The publication's sources suggested that Russia may now be developing more sophisticated devices.
The NYT notes that the incident demonstrated that Biden and Putin have maintained indirect channels of communication, although they have not communicated since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Airlines flying to the US have already tightened cargo rules since August 2024. Some of these measures remain classified, the publication adds.
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