Reuters: Russia arranged for parcels of sex toys to be blown up, Ukrainians involved

Nicu Popescudeputy Prime Minister

With the war in Ukraine, these attacks have intensified, they became more frequent, more assertive,

said Nicu Popescu, Moldova's deputy prime minister and foreign secretary until early last year and now distinguished policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations think-tank

Dmitry Peskovspokesman

We know nothing about it,

spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Reuters

The proceedings in this case concern criminal activities inspired by Russia's GRU,

this person said, referring to Moscow's foreign military intelligence agency

This is an extremely cheap, very effective, highly anonymous method of producing explosive devices,

he added