The Czech Republic called Russia's involvement in the explosions in Vrbetica proven

The Czech police accused the Russian GRU of involvement in explosions at ammunition depots in Vrbetica in 2014

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Czech police said that investigators were able to prove Russia's involvement in the 2014 explosions at ammunition depots in Vrbetica. According to the Czech authorities, the explosions were the result of a “sabotage operation by Russian military intelligence,” writes Kommersant.

The statement said that the goal was to prevent the delivery of weapons. It is also indicated that the information on the case is incomplete, since the suspects are located on the territory of the Russian Federation, and the Russian authorities refused to respond to requests from the Czech Republic.

German-made weapons were stored in warehouses in the village of Vrbetice, which were planned to be supplied to Ukraine. As a result of the explosions, two Czech citizens were killed, the damage was estimated at 1 billion crowns. Later, the Czech Republic stated that Alexander Mishkin and Anatoly Chepiga were allegedly involved in the explosions — the media wrote that these people were GRU agents and that they were presented to the public as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov. Petrov and Boshirov first appeared in public in an interview with RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan after the attempted poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the UK. The interview guests stated that they were not involved in any crimes, were entrepreneurs and visited British Salisbury as tourists.