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BERLIN – The leaders German he raised the possibility that Monday’s burning cargo plane crash in Lithuania was the result of sabotage or hybrid warfare.

The cargo plane was flying from Leipzig, Germany, and was scheduled to land at Vilnius Airport when it crashed several kilometers short of the runway. The plane slid on the ground for several hundred meters before hitting a house, authorities in Lithuania said.

Who did the sabotage that caused the cargo plane crash in Lithuania?

1. Hybrid Event

Asked on Monday night whether the crash was the result of hybrid warfare, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told public broadcaster ZDF: “We are looking at it closely, we cannot say at the moment , but it could be – there are many. different types of hybrid warfare as bad as we saw in Germany.”

Scholz said the cause of the crash “must be thoroughly investigated. But we won’t make accusations until we can prove it.”

His comments followed similar statements from Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock who, according to Reuters, told reporters at the G7 summit: “The truth is that we, together with our Lithuanian partners, must is Spanish, now ask ourselves seriously if this was an accident (or ) another hybrid event shows how unstable the times we live in, even in central Europe.”

On Tuesday, Baerbock said some of the recent events fit Russia’s pattern of “instability and disunity,” noting that “thousands of propaganda bots, waving GPS signals, or even cutting data cables in the Baltic Sea – that is not possible. ” It is a coincidence at the same time. ”

2. Research required

At the same time, Lithuanian authorities downplayed the level of malicious activity, insisting that no evidence pointing to sabotage has yet been found. “Our initial information does not indicate that we have to investigate more serious actions,” said Prosecutor Arturas Urbelis in a statement on Tuesday, according to Reuters.

“We may find signs of other types of activity as we investigate,” he said. The US National Transportation Safety Board is sending its own staff to help with the investigation, Reuters reported, along with representatives from Boeing and the US Federal Aviation Administration.

Footage from a nearby security camera showed the plane descending, before disappearing behind a building. Minutes later, a large fireball was seen in the air rising from behind the building, followed by black smoke.

One crew member died in the accident. Three other people on board the plane survived, including the pilot, along with 12 people in the house that were evacuated safely, according to local authorities.

The plane’s two black boxes, which record flight data, were recovered from the crash site on Tuesday, a Lithuanian Justice Ministry spokeswoman told CNN.

Lithuania’s counter-intelligence chief, Darius Jauniskis, told journalists at a press conference: “We cannot deny the possibility of terrorism. …