Heathrow Airport stokes WW3 hearth as ‘Putin’s army involvement should be checked’
EXCLUSIVE: Prime Minister Keir Starmer toured our Trident-armed Vanguard nuclear submarines and two days later Heathrow was shut down by a devastating fire – as counter terrorism police probe fire
Fears Mad Vlad had a hand in the blaze that cast the world into travel chaos, have been shared. Terror police are already at Heathrow Airport to probe potential sabotage behind the fire at an electrical substation in Hayes, west London.
The airport’s power was knocked off by the blaze which resulted in all flights in and out of Heathrow being cancelled or diverted – impacting nearly 300,000 passengers and over a thousand journeys. The cause of the fire has not yet been determined with government secretary Ed Miliband saying it was “too early” to say what the source was.
World-renowned war expert Prof Anthony Glees said we must “immediately” find out whether Putin’s spies were behind the devastating Heathrow fire as he pointed out the Prime Minister was recently on a tour of our nuclear weapons.
He told the Daily Star: “There are more than 585,000 electricity substations in the UK, why there should have been an explosion and fire at this one may be a coincidence. But it may not be.
“On Wednesday Sir Keir is seen on one of our Trident-armed Vanguard nuclear submarines, I think the first ever UK PM to ride the waves on one; yesterday he visited Barrow to lay the keel of the next generation of Dreadnought nuclear-armed, nuclear powered subs.
“The next day Heathrow is laid lame. That it was ‘turned off’ by Putin is a distinct possibility but of course we will have to wait and see.”
Counter terror police are reportedly searching the site of the blaze for any clues indicating the fire was started as an act of sabotage. Mr Glees added: “I have no doubt that MI5 officers are all over the substation right now.
“They understand exactly what would be at stake if this was a deliberate blow by Putin at our critical national infrastructure. However the very fact that serious people are obliged to ask whether this was yet another example of Russian sabotage and intelligence-led attacks on British soil is, in itself, a win for Putin.”
Mr Glees pointed out it isn’t the first time Mad Vlad’s forces set alight to infrastructure on the island of Britain. He said: “People like me think of the arrest of Dylan Earl and Jake Reeves, who were charged with firebombing a warehouse in Leyton, East London in March 2024, used for storing military equipment for Ukraine.
“Earl has pleaded guilty – in October 2024 – not just to the attack but, significantly, to recruiting others to work for the Russian intelligence services (he was the first person to be tried under the National Security Act 2023). The trial of others arrested with him has been fixed for 2 June 2025.
He said: “We ought to be able to say at once ‘no, the Russians cannot have been behind this’ but we can’t: that’s a massive problem right now.
“Why Heathrow does not have a backup source of power is another question, of course, but given the emphasis that Starmer and Reeves have put on Heathrow as a lynchpin of our national security, it is scarcely credible to discover that there is no backup.”
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