Milrem Robotics

And we're talking about significant amounts of money.

And you mentioned, Sarah, just that relatively small incidents targeting Milrem in Estonia.

The same thing is true for Estonia.

The cables that have been damaged in the Baltic Sea and elsewhere, these are significant amounts of money that the operators have to pay each time to repair the cables.

On Monday the twenty-eighth, uh, [clears throat] Newsguard counted nine hundred and six fake news stories dressed up as real outlets from Euronews to the BBC, produced by Russian influence operations.

On the twenty-ninth of September in Tallinn, Estonia, Estonia said that Russian special services commissioned the fifteenth of August arson attack on the Milrem Robotics building.

Three suspects, reportedly Latvian, are in custody.

On the twenty-ninth of September also, Spain's El Mundo reports that a Russian intelligence network charged by US prosecutors planned to kill Garry Kasparov and Ilya Ponomarev in America this summer.

I'm sure they can find an oil company that doesn't really give a fuck about getting anything out of Argentina.

And next, Estonian, Estonia has formally blamed Russian intelligence for the August 15th attack on Milrem Robotics in Tallinn, a company that builds unmanned ground vehicles for Ukraine.

Three suspects were detained in Latvia and handed over to Estonia this month, and Tallinn has summoned Russia's ambassador, while the Kremlin rejects the findings as baseless.

NATO, the EU, Germany, France and other Nordic countries and Baltic countries quickly backed Estonia's call, calling the attack part of a wider Russian sabotage campaign aimed at weakening European support for Ukraine.

The Syria pipeline sabotage and Rotherham explosion add to a pattern of unexplained infrastructure incidents that remain under investigation.

Estonia's internal security service, known as Kapo, said it can state, in its words, with full confidence, that the August 14 and 15 arson at a Milrem robotics building in Tallinn's Lasnami district was sabotage commissioned by Russian Federation Special Services.

Two Latvian citizens were detained in Latvia on August 17 and a third the next day, then handed over to Estonia.

Milrem manufactures the Themis unmanned ground vehicle, over 150 units are set to go to Ukraine, funded by the Netherlands, with 15 already operational as of October 2025.

Estonia's Prime Minister Kristen Michael called the sabotage, absolutely unacceptable, and Foreign Minister Margus Tsakna said Russia's charged affair would be summoned.

Russia denied involvement, with Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov calling the statements, baseless.

It is failing on the battlefield in Ukraine and it is failing to undermine our unity and support for Ukraine.

NATO Chief Mark Rutte reaffirms the Alliance's support for Ukraine after Estonian Prime Minister Kristian Mihal revealed yesterday that an attack in mid-August on Milrem Robotics, which supplies Ukraine with unmanned military vehicles within his country, was ordered by Russian special services.

footage courtesy of L'Agence France-Presse news agency.

According to the BBC, Russia has been accused of launching sabotage attacks in a number of NATO countries that have been helping Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of that country in February of 2022.