Explosions in VrBetytics: The Czech Republic may be charged with a former Soviet military

According to the investigation, Mykola Shaposhnikov, who now lives in Greece, took a direct role in organizing a sabotage in a warehouse with ammunition intended for export, including Ukraine. A new suspect may appear in 2014 in 2014 in 2014 in the ammunition facility. The Czech Prosecutor's Office wants to make accusations of espionage against Mykola Shaposhnikov, a former Soviet soldier who received Czech citizenship in the 1990s.

About it on Monday, March 27, the Czech newspaper Lidové noviny writes. According to the publication, its probable role in the organization of the explosion is the focus of the investigation. Shaposhnikov, who now lives in Greece, worked as a consultant at IMEX Group. In the warehouse of this company, in 2014, there was an explosion, which killed two people and caused significant damage.

Czech journalists, referring to their own sources, claim that shortly before the explosion, Shaposhnikov transmitted information about the ammunition stored in the village of Vrbetytsya, Major General Andriy Averianov, the chief arrived in the Czech Republic. The names and, according to Czech investigators, undermined the composition.

It is assumed that it was Shaposhnikov who sent the e -mail to the owner with the dates, when the GRU agents who issued themselves for arms inspectors from Tajikistan and Moldova will arrive in VRBEK. According to the newspaper, on October 4, 2014, Averyanov met with Shaposhnikov in Portugal and then returned to Moscow. On October 7, tickets for Chepiga and Mishkin were purchased, which arrived in Prague on October 11.

On October 16, an explosion occurred in Vrbetytsya, and on the same day both agents and Averyanov, who was in Vienna at this time, flew to Moscow. According to Lidové Novinyy, Chepizi and Mishkin, official accusations in the Czech Republic have not yet been filed because the investigation has no confirmation that they were in Urbetes during the explosion. At the same time, Shaposhnikov's daughter confirmed that he and his family members met with Averian in Portugal.

According to her, it was a "ordinary meeting of familiar tourists. " Shaposhnikov, who testified in the case, stated that he did not know the true person of two "inspectors". The investigation believes that he hid the truth. The Czech authorities announced suspicions of Russian military intelligence agents in mid -April 2021. The explosions were aimed at ammunition designed to be supplied abroad, perhaps to Ukraine.

The Czech Republic has sent an unprecedented number of employees of the Russian Embassy, ​​and Russia replied. Even before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, relations between Prague and Moscow have deteriorated sharply. Russia categorically denies its involvement in explosions. Chepiga and Mishkin are the GRU officers who are accused of the British authorities under the names of Petrov and Boshirov of the assassination of Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury in 2018.

We will remind, on April 17, 2021 in the Foreign Ministry of the Czech Republic declared an expulsion from the country 18 Russian diplomats. The department was stated that they were identified as employees of Russian special services. Already former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Andriy Babisha then stated that there was evidence that officers of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian Federation were involved in the explosion of ammunition in Vrbetitice village in 2014.