Sir Grant Shapps
Sept 3, 2026
Yesterday, Germany named Russia as responsible for the drone attack on Leipzig-Halle Airport. Berlin summoned the Russian ambassador, ordered the consulate in Bonn to close, shut the Russian House in Berlin, and raised its national threat level.
So I went back through the record. Not the suspicions. Not the speculation. The cases that have been settled in court or formally attributed by a government.
The scales below mark cases proven in court. The columns mark cases attributed by a government.
⚖️ March 2024, London. Warehouse holding Starlink terminals for Ukraine burned down. Five convicted, up to 17 years. Ordered by Wagner via Telegram.
⚖️ May 2024, Vilnius. IKEA store set alight. A Ukrainian, 17 at the time, jailed. He acted for Russian military and security structures.
🏛️ May 2024, Warsaw. Marywilska 44 shopping centre destroyed, 1,400 units lost. Poland’s Prime Minister confirmed it was arson ordered by Russian services.
⚖️ January 2025, Estonia. A supermarket and a Ukrainian restaurant torched. Two convicted. The court found the principal was tasked by the GRU.
⚖️ March 2025, Cologne. GPS-tracked parcels used to map delivery routes. A Ukrainian convicted of acting as a sabotage agent; the court found a Russian state entity initiated it.
⚖️ May 2025, London. Six Bulgarians jailed for a combined 50 years for surveillance run from a Great Yarmouth guesthouse. Targets: journalists, dissidents, Ukrainian troops.
⚖️ October 2025, Poland. Three Ukrainians convicted over a sabotage network spanning Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine and Russia.
🏛️ November 2025, Poland. Explosion on the Warsaw-Lublin railway, a route carrying aid to Ukraine. Two men working with Russian intelligence identified. Classed as terrorism.
🏛️ August 2026, Leipzig. Explosive drone found beside a Ukrainian cargo aircraft. Attributed to Russia yesterday.
Nine established cases. Six proven in court, three formally attributed by governments. Five countries. Britain in two of them.
There is also a case currently before the British courts, which I have deliberately excluded from the tally above. In July 2024 an incendiary device posted from Vilnius ignited at a DHL warehouse in Birmingham, one of four parcels sent across Europe. Fifteen people have been charged. Those proceedings are ongoing and the allegations have yet to be determined by the court.
And these nine are only the cases that have been established. There are many more besides: the plots disrupted before they landed, the cases still under investigation, the incidents no government has yet felt able to name.
This is not a series of unfortunate events. It is a campaign.
Russia is at war with the West today. Not tomorrow, not in some future scenario we can plan for at leisure. Today.
We need to respond as though we understand that, and defend ourselves and our democracies accordingly.
Andy Burnham’s visit to Kyiv is a powerful signal that Britain’s support for Ukraine remains unwavering.
When I visited Kyiv in 2023, Russia occupied around 18% of Ukraine. Nearly three years later, that figure is still only around 19–20%, despite the enormous cost Russia has paid. That tells you something about the extraordinary resilience of the Ukrainian people.
Sharing the expertise to help Ukraine build its own long-range missiles is another important step towards giving them the means to defend themselves for the long term.
Sir Grant Shapps (born 14 September 1968) is a British politician who served in various cabinetpositions under Prime Ministers David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak between 2012 and 2024, lastly as Secretary of State for Defence from August 2023 to July 2024. Shapps served as Conservative Party Co-chairman from 2010 to 2012 under Cameron, Transport Secretaryfrom 2019 to 2022 under Johnson, and briefly as Home Secretary in 2022 under Truss. Under Sunak, he served as Business Secretary, Energy Secretaryand later Defence Secretary. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Welwyn Hatfield from 2005 to 2024.
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Yuri Josef Koszarycz :
How many dead soldiers must return to Russia before the population dares to rise up against Putin? Is the population cowardly, afraid, or both? Isn’t there a limit to what a population can accept?
All of them. To the last Russian. (I’m purposely reversing and quoting all of the vatniks by the way, who claim that the war will go on until “the last Ukrainian”) in case the reader missed the irony.
Apparently, the Russians and their sympathisers do not take kindly to their own medicine when one applies the same method and treatment to them.
Furthermore, serfs and slaves don’t rise. And Russians are generally obedient serfs and slaves. They kneel before their master and Tsar.
No limit exists because Russia is a Death Cult. It is a dystopian, barbaric nightmare inhabited by deranged, self-destructive savages cannibalising themselves for another psychopath just like them, Vladimir Putin.
“Russia is a Death Cult. It is a dystopian, barbaric nightmare inhabited by deranged, self-destructive savages cannibalising themselves for another psychopath just like them, Vladimir Putin.”
Perfect description by Yuri Koszarycz.
“Russia is at war with the West today. Not tomorrow, not in some future scenario we can plan for at leisure. Today.
We need to respond as though we understand that, and defend ourselves and our democracies accordingly.”
Exactly right Sir Grant.
We aren’t doing that and we aren’t even giving Ukraine the support she needs, which in my judgment needs to increase by a factor of 500%.
We are letting a puss-filled, pasty little nazi gremlin take the piss.
And it’s no good hoping that Krasnov is suddenly going to abandon his toxic hatred of Ukraine and his constant putler-rimming; ain’t gonna happen.