We invite you to watch an episode of Skirmantas Malinauskas’s vlog about the dozens of fires that broke out at waste-processing facilities in Lithuania last year and the possibility that some of them may have been deliberate acts of arson.
“I am not someone who tends to believe in coincidences when so many of them happen at the same time,” Malinauskas says at the end of the episode.
The vlogger visited our facility together with our company’s CEO, Algirdas Blazgys. During the visit, he acknowledges that it is currently extremely difficult to find conclusive evidence proving that these incidents were deliberate acts of sabotage.
Arson targeting strategic facilities is one of the methods used in hybrid warfare by hostile forces in Lithuania. We can recall the already uncovered arson attack on the IKEA Vilnius store, burning shipments handled by DHL, and attempts to set fire to the factory of TVC Solutions in Siauliai, which produces equipment for Ukraine.
There are many questions about the causes and the course of the fire:
❓ Why did the fire start when the waste had not been moved for about 20 hours? If the fire had been caused by a damaged lithium-ion battery, it would have ignited immediately after the damage occurred.
❓ Why did the fire start on the only day of the week – and in the early morning hours – when there were no employees at the facility?
❓ Why did at least 17 waste fires occur within two months, when there had been none before or after that period?
❓ High air temperatures also cannot explain the fires, as the temperature inside waste piles remains stable both in winter and summer. Last summer was not hot – on the contrary, it was cool and rainy.
We invite you to watch the episode and decide for yourself whether these questions also arise for you – the vlog is in Lithuanian. The discussion about the fires begins at 30:50. You can find the video here.
