Posted on 04/18/2021 12:29:00 AM PDT by AdmSmith
The Czech Republic is expelling 18 employees of the Russian embassy in Prague, who were allegedly "identified as members of the Russian secret services", Foreign Minister Jan Hamacek said at news conference.
According to local media reports, the move comes in response to evidence obtained by the country's security services which suggests Russia's involvement in two ammunition depot explosions in 2014 in the Czech Republic which killed two people.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Andrej Babis said in the same news conference that "there is well-grounded suspicion about the involvement of officers of the Russian intelligence service GRU, unit 29155, in the explosion of ammunitions depot in the Vrbetice area".
It has been announced by the Czech authorities that the two GRU Officers that were charged with the attempted murder of the Skripals in Salisbury, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, were also behind the deaths of two civilians and an explosion in the Czech town of Vrbetice.
In response, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said:
The UK stands in full support of our Czech allies, who have exposed the lengths that the Russian intelligence services will go to in their attempts to conduct dangerous and malign operations in Europe. This shows a pattern of behaviour by Moscow, following the Novichok attack in Salisbury. My sympathies are with the families of the victims in Vrbetice.
We are as determined and committed as ever to bring those responsible for the attack in Salisbury to justice, and commend the actions of the Czech authorities to do the same. Russia must desist from these actions, which violate the most basic international norms.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-supports-czech-efforts-to-expose-russian-malign-activity
games are afoot...
Biden might welcome them here, as a gesture of “good will” to the Russians.
4...3...2,,,
Waiting for the Putinescas to arrive and declare:
1. Russians are allowed to take lands they declare Russian
2. ...destroy what they wish
3. ...it’ none of our business
In another article, the publication found out that the recipient was a Bulgarian-based company, Emco. Both of these companies are owned by a Bulgarian businessman, licensed arms dealer Emilian Gebrev. He became a poisoning target by Russian agents shortly after the Czech blast. In 2015, he was twice poisoned with the Novichok nerve agent.
The Czech media outlet Respekt, citing police sources, also claims that the weapons were being prepared for delivery to Gebrev, and focuses on an important detail – Gebrev was one of the suppliers of military goods for the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Guard, including in the midst of the active phase of confronting Russian aggression in Donbas.
https://www.unian.info/world/czech-ammo-blast-likely-staged-by-russia-to-disrupt-arms-supply-to-ukraine-media-11391901.html
Precursor to war.
Meanwhile https://www.flightradar24.com/FORTE11/276f2181 and
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:37.7/centery:44.4/zoom:8
Is that a spy drone?
No, it is Global Hawk a remotely piloted surveillance aircraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_RQ-4_Global_Hawk
Thanks AdmSmith.
Actually it is all about the tender for building 2 addition nuclear power electricity reactors on Czech power plant. The Russian Rosatom leads the competition. This hoax is made to undermine this.
Looks like FORTE 11 checked a vessel on it way back. https://www.flightradar24.com/FORTE11/276f2181
A lot of new info will be disclosed in a few hours.
This is from 2020:
How Russian Intelligence Services Use Diplomatic Cover in Czech Territory
https://www.europeanvalues.cz/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/QUESTIONS_AND_ANSWERS.pdf
Here is the compilation:
The explosion of the munition depot in Vrbetice on 16 October 2014, involved at least six operatives from GRU’s Unit 29155. It was supervised personally by its commander, Col. Gen. Andrey Averyanov, a senior deputy to the head of the GRU, who traveled undercover to Central Europe at the exact time of the operation and left back to Moscow mere hours after the explosion.
This was one of only two known clandestine operations for which Gen. Averyanov has personally traveled abroad, indicating the significance of this subversive mission for the Russian government. Gen. Andrey Averyanov is a high ranking military official who, based on telephone call records reviewed by Bellingcat, has a direct line of communication to both the chief of the GRU chief and to the Kremlin.
more details:
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2021/04/20/senior-gru-leader-directly-involved-with-czech-arms-depot-explosion/
Thanks AdmSmith.
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