United States officials revealed that Russian intelligence had a role in the letter bombs that were sent to various sites in Madrid last year, including Spain's prime minister's official residence.
Spanish defense minister. what have you learned? reporter: late last year, a terrifying set of incidents that happened in spain. as you said, these letter bombs were targeting the spanish prime minister, the ukrainian and american embassies in spain as well as the spanish defense ministry and we re learning that u.s. officials believe that russian intelligence officers directed a russian white supremacist group, the mrussian impreer movement to carry out that campaign and deemed to be a terrorist group by the united states. that designation was given in 2020, but there is still sort of some questions about the direction and the operation that carry out this campaign and the direct ties to russian intelligence. so the details here are still a little bit fuzzy. u.s. officials are still really looking into this, and, of course, spanish authorities are also investigating the matter. the other question here is whether or not the kremlin and president putin had knowledge
Civilians. reportedly the same unit in the russian military, the gru, was responsible for directing that russian extremist group, the russian imperial movement, to carry out these five or six letter bombs in spain. two of which were addressed to the u.s. embassy. martha: so when you did your intelligence work, you worked in russia. you have a very close understanding of how all of this works. i want to read this to you for the russian foreign minister. he says there s a grouping risk of an escalation. he says our signals are not being taken into consideration. how do you interpret what he s trying to tell us and others involved in ukraine? he s supporting putin s
Kremlin ally oligarch deniers group was behind the bloody packages that were sent to 17 embassies across europe. they received either letter bombs, fake letter bombs or animal parts like cows. they say, quote, they would never engage in such stupid packages. meanwhile president biden is considering them as a foreign terrorist organization. they re often described as russian president vladimir putin s off the books troops. mercenaries had a key role in
Chose to start the war. and release the evil that comes from starting an unprovoked war. yes. ukrainians now call this the bridge of hope. but the crosses are for those killed fleeing russian occupation. itjust makes it very, very real indeed what these people suffered. justin welby told us it s immoral to force a peace on ukraine. he calls this war a struggle for freedom that he s convinced the west has a duty to support. sarah rainsford, bbc news, kyiv. several of ukraine s embassies and consulates across europe have been sent parcels containing animals eyes, including its diplomatic mission in the spanish capital. letter bombs have also arrived