Czech Prime Minister refused to consider the explosion at the warehouse in Vrbetica an attack of the Russian Federation

20 апреля 2021, 06:53

The aim of the attack on the ammunition depot in 2014, in which the Czech Republic accuses Russian intelligence officers, was a consignment of weapons, but this is not an act of state terrorism on the part of the Russian Federation, said the Prime Minister of the republic Andrey Babish.

"Russia did not attack the Czech Republic. It was an attack by GRU agents on goods belonging to a Bulgarian businessman, arms dealer", - Babish quoted Reuters as saying.

But the official Prague cannot publish a full account of the incident, the Prime Minister added.

Let us remind you that on Saturday Babish and Czech First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs Jan Hamacek announced the expulsion of 18 Russian diplomats. The Czech side claims that they are "officers of the Russian special services of the SVR and the GRU". This step was taken in connection with the allegedly revealed circumstances of the explosion in Vrbetica in 2014. Czech Prosecutor General Pavel Zeman noted that Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, suspected in Great Britain of poisoning the former GRU officer Sergey Skripal, are behind the events.

In turn, the Russian Foreign Ministry recognized 20 Czech diplomats as persona non grata.

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