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The BBC revealed that Russia was behind a string of arson attacks in Britain — including fires targeting a property and a car linked to Prime Minister Keir Starmer. BBC News investigation (June 16, 2026) linked a Russian sabotage campaign to arson attacks on a property and a car tied to PM Keir Starmer; two Ukrainian nationals were convicted at the Old Bailey over the arson conspiracy — BBC News (via The New Voice of Ukraine)
The handler who directed them was tied to a figure inside Russia’s foreign ministry. The BBC identified the handler “EL” as Evgeny Lyukshin, a Russian elite figure photographed behind a deputy foreign minister; British police said they had not proven the handler’s identity or found evidence of a state-backed threat — BBC News (via Ukraine Today)
The same operation built a fake far-right group called Direct Action, which paid people to vandalize mosques and attack police. Direct Action posed as a homegrown far-right movement after the Southport riots and offered money for arson and attacks on mosques and police, with pound signs formatted in the Russian style — BBC News (via The New Voice of Ukraine)
A fake Islamic foundation recruited people to spray Islamic graffiti — designed to enrage the first group. Before running the far-right group, EL helped create a bogus Islamic body, the Takbir Foundation, which offered up to £150 to spray Islamic graffiti; the BBC reported its real aim was to inflame the far right, and it paid non-Muslims to carry it out — BBC News (via AOL)
Six mosques and a school were hit. The BBC reported six mosques and an Islamic school in London were vandalized after Direct Action offered payment for anti-Muslim graffiti — BBC News (via The New Voice of Ukraine)
In May 2016, two crowds faced off outside a mosque in Houston — one protesting the Islamization of Texas, one there to defend it. Neither side knew the same troll farm in St. Petersburg had organized both. On May 21, 2016, demonstrators faced off outside the Islamic Da’wah Center in Houston; the anti-Islam “Heart of Texas” page (250,000 followers) and the pro-Muslim “United Muslims of America” page (328,000) were both operated by Russia’s Internet Research Agency — NPR
It cost Russia about two hundred dollars to get Texans shouting at Texans. Sen. Richard Burr said it cost Russia roughly $200 to set up the two competing Facebook groups and buy the ads that drove the dueling Houston protests — PolitiFact
The same troll farm pushed Black Lives Matter pages and pro-police content side by side. Senate-commissioned reports found the Internet Research Agency worked political fault lines from both ends — amplifying Black Lives Matter content and adding “Blue Lives Matter” pro-police material as the counter-movement emerged — Gizmodo
It sold Texas secession to a quarter-million followers. The Russian-controlled “Heart of Texas” page promoted Texas secession and amassed hundreds of thousands of followers — The Texas Tribune