The European Union (EU) supported the charges of the Czech Republic to Russia about the explosion of ammunition in Vrbetice in 2014. This is stated in the statement of the EU foreign policy service, reports TASS.
“The European Union fully supports and solidarity with the Czech Republic and regrets the reaction of Russia to send 20 Czech diplomats,” the text of the document says. It is also indicated that the EU “is deeply concerned about the repetitive negative trend of dangerous detrimental behavior of Russia in Europe.”
The European Union called on Russia to stop the activities that allegedly violates “established international principles and norms and threatens stability in Europe.”
On April 18, Moscow declared people of non-Grata 20 employees of the Embassy of the Czech Republic. This decision was the response to expulsion from the Czech Republic 18 Russian diplomats during the day earlier. They are suspected of working on Russian intelligence services, which Prague considers it involved in the explosions in Vrbetice in 2014. In addition, the Czech Republic announced the search for Russians Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Bashrov: they, as stated, were at the site of the explosion in stock in Vrbetice in October 2014.