The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharov said that the Czech Republic did not have grounds for the accusation of Russia in involvement in the explosion in the warehouse of ammunition in Vrbetice. She stated this on the air “Russia 1”, reports TASS on Sunday, April 25.
“No prerequisites for making such applications, and not that evidence, the country’s leadership has not been over the past seven years, in which the investigation was going on,” the representative of the department responded to the Suspicions of the Czech Republic.
On the eve of Zakharova responded to the fact that the Czech Republic’s authorities thanked the Great Britain, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania for supporting the position of Prague in confrontation with Russia. She remembered the words of the Czech writer Karel Chapeca. “Saransch is a natural disaster, although she is not afraid alone. The same …”, “the representative of the ministry wrote and asked to find the end of the quotation” Himself. “
Earlier, the President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman made a number of statements that were voiced during his emergency television on April 25. He promised to declassify the results of the investigation of the explosions in the warehouses of ammunition in the village of Vrbetice, and also did not rule out that the scandal could turn out to be a consequence of the game of special services. Among other things, the head of state indicated that in the reports of the Security and Information Service (Counterintelligence) of the country there is no evidence of the presence of “Russian agents” in the warehouse of ammunition in Vrbetice. He also urged not to make any conclusions about the causes of the incident until the end of the investigation.
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.