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A group arrested in Lithuania in November tried to torch an aid convoy for Ukraine that included military equipment and radars, the head of the police has said.

Lithuania has detained two Spanish citizens suspected of planning an arson attack that a senior official said was linked to Russia.

A Polish court has placed a Belarusian suspect in three months pre-trial detention after being detained by the Internal Security Agency (ABW) on suspicion of committing acts of sabotage for foreign intelligence.

A man dressed as Batman’s arch-nemesis The Joker is facing eight years in jail after deliberately burning his house down.

A Ukrainian charged with collaborating with Russian intelligence to burn down a Polish factory has had his plea bargain deal with prosecutors rejected by a court.

Russia's GRU military intelligence service is seeking to cause "mayhem" across Britain and Europe, the UK's domestic spy chief said on Tuesday, while a growing threat from resurgent al Qaeda and Islamic State was his greatest terrorism concern.

A former university professor suspected of setting fire to a forest in southeastern Greece has been jailed pending trial.

The Ukrainian state security service (SBU) and police detained 19 individuals whom the Kremlin recruited to carry out arson in Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltic States.

France’s high-speed train network has been hit by a series of coordinated arson attacks just hours before the Paris Olympics opening ceremony on Friday.

A group of arsonists preparing to attack Ukraine and NATO countries on behalf of Russia has been detained by Ukrainian police.

A Danish firm has rejected speculation that three fires at separate facilities were the work of Russian agents.

Russia has emerged as the prime suspect behind a foiled arson attack on a Prague bus depot last week.

Police have identified an eight-year-old boy as the perpetrator of several cases of arson in Jelcz-Laskowice, a town in south-western Poland.

A Belarusian mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter has been arrested along with two others on suspicion of carrying out acts of sabotage in Poland on behalf of Russian special services.

Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU, has been behind a series of arson attacks across Europe, according to a report in the New York Times.

A recent attempt to set a large building in Warsaw on fire failed, allowing Polish security services to come into possession of several remotely controlled igniters, according to a Polish news outlet.

Poland’s prime minister says nine people have been arrested on suspicion of sabotage ‘on behalf of Russia’s intelligence services’.

The individual suspected of attempting to set fire to the Nożyk Synagogue in Warsaw has been apprehended by the police, as informed by the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Interior and Administration (MSWiA), Czesław Mroczek, to the Polish Press Agency (PAP). According to the police report, the arrest was executed by officers in collaboration with the Internal Security Agency (ABW). The person arrested is a 16-year-old.