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Why MI5 will be checking very carefully for Putin’s fingerprints on the Heathrow fire

A fire the likes of which has never happened before. One which instantly closes Europe’s biggest air hub at a time of rising geo-political tensions, and just as a meeting of the continent’s most senior defence chiefs breaks up. Can it really be a coincidence?

We don’t yet know what caused the fire which broke out at an electricity sub station which supplies Heathrow in the early hours of Friday morning, but the British security services will be all over it. Every inch of the area will be subjected to a bank of forensic checks as will all CCTV and communications for miles around.

The reason is simple: the fire has all the hallmarks of Russian state-sponsored terrorism – a hybrid form of war that has been raging in Europe for more than three years now.

The back up generator was also affected. Perhaps the real killer is the Lithium Batteries and not Putin.

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