The Czech government expelled 18 Russian diplomats on Saturday (17), who were identified as spies from the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and the Military Intelligence Service (GRU) and were suspected of involvement in an arms depot bombing in eastern Czechoslovakia in 2014, and Andrej Babis also revealed on a television program that Russian spies were involved in the arms depot bombing. The spy is suspected of being involved in a 2014 bombing of an arms depot in eastern Czechoslovakia.
According to Reuters, Babis pointed out that the spies planned the arsenal bombing in order to provide the memory of the arms to a Bulgarian arms dealer who would later become the target of an attempted murder in Russia. Czech media believe Bulgarian prosecutors charged three Russian men in 2020 with attempting to kill arms dealer Emilian Gebrev, the same Bulgarian arms dealer involved in the bombing.
The arsenal bombing occurred on Oct. 16, 2014, in the town of Vrbětice in eastern Czechoslovakia, where two people were killed instantly when an arsenal containing 50 metric tons of ammunition exploded. Czech police said two Russians, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, who arrived in the Czech Republic a few days before the 2014 bombing, had also stayed near the town of Vrbětice.
Czech Interior Minister and Acting Foreign Minister Jan Hamacek noted that police knew the identities of the two men when they entered the country in 2014 and waited until the Russians used a nerve agent to poison Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in an attempt on their lives in Salisbury, England, in 2018 to discover It was only then that it became clear that the two men in question might be members of the Russian GRU’s Unit 29155, and that both incidents might be the work of the GRU.
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