Czech President Milos Zeman denied the presence of “Russian agents” in the warehouse of ammunition in Vrbetice, stating that the evidence was not in the state of security and information services (counterintelligence) of the country. His words report RIA Novosti on Sunday, April 25th.
“When the premises of the second warehouse immediately before the explosion happened there, there was no explosive device there,” the land was told during his emergency television due to the incident in Vrbetice.
Earlier, the Czech leader stated that the cause of explosions at military warehouses in Vrbetice in 2014 could become careless handling of ammunition or activities of foreign special services.
According to Zemren, this is evidenced by the data contained in the counterintelligence reports. At the same time, he called on to wait for the results of the incident investigation before making final conclusions about its causes.
April 18, Moscow announced 20 employees of the Czech Republic Embassy with people Non Grata. These measures were taken in response to the expulsion of Russian diplomats from the republic day earlier. Prague considered that they work under covering the Russian special services, which, in turn, allegedly connected with explosions in Vrbetice. Also Prague announced the search for Russians Alexander Petrov and Ruslana Bolsharova. Representatives of Czech special services believe that they were at the explosion site in Vrbetice in 2014.
Explosions in the warehouse of ammunition occurred on October 16 and December 3, 2014. As a result of the incidents killed two people. The causes of incidents were not installed.