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The investigation into the six-year-old explosion in Vrbětice has turned into an international scandal. According to Prime Minister Andrei Babiš, Russian agents are behind the explosion - the same ones that poisoned Sergei Skripal. Article List The reports managed to reconstruct why - as Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (YES) announced on Saturday - Russian agents blew up an ammunition and weapons depot in Vrbětice in the Zlín region in 2014. And how the Czech police and secret services managed to reveal them. The reason why Russian GRU intelligence focused on Vrbětice was the war in Syria. It was there that the ammunition from the Vrbětice warehouse was to be directed. According to investigators, it could have been sabotage so that ammunition from the Imex Group warehouse could not travel to the Americans, who wanted to help the rebels in Syria fighting President Bashar al-Assad. The Russians, on the other hand, supported the Aasad regime. Another version is that part of the weapons were intended to help Ukraine with the warring pro-Russian insurgents. If the blast was indeed caused by Russian agents, they also committed double murders: torsos of two warehouse workers were discovered by pyrotechnicians more than a month after the explosion.

But how did the Czech security forces come up with the names of agents Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boširov (real names Alexander Mishkin and Anatoly Chepig)? When an investigation into the poisoning of Agent Sergei Skripal in Britain the year before before revealed that the perpetrators were probably three Russian GRU intelligence officers, the investigation took on a completely different dimension: The National Police Center against Organized Crime and the Security Information Service therefore have strong indications that the Russians are to blame for the still unresolved Vrbětice explosion. Mishkin and Chepiga are members of Russian intelligence with the number 29155. It is a super-secret division with 20 members, which has a diverse range of experience - from combat operations through communication technology to medicine. "I would like to commend the work of our security forces, the police, especially the National Center for the Fight against Organized Crime, which have done an extraordinary job," said Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (YES) on Saturday.In Vrbětice, a warehouse with 50 tons of ammunition exploded in mid-October 2014, which flew up to 800 meters away. At the beginning of December, there were other explosions: a warehouse with 16 tons of artillery ammunition and submachine guns flew into the air. Representatives of the Imex Group then stated that this type of military material cannot explode on its own. According to the List of Reports, investigators believe that Russian agents secretly installed an explosive system when visiting the warehouse. Which was then unknowingly launched by two employees who died on the spot. Criminalists do not yet know what system it was. At that time, 10,000 submachine guns exploded in Vrbětice, which were fought in Syria. The same type that Sobotka's government supported the Kurdish fighters.

A similar action, ie against the supply of weapons to Syria or Ukraine, was probably carried out by Russian agents in Bulgaria as well.According to journalists from the international Bellingcat project, Russian intelligence arrived in Sofia shortly before the local arms dealer Emilijan Gebrev was poisoned. Gebrev turned to the police after the details of the failed murder of former Russian agent Skripal came to light. Gebrev found that he had symptoms similar to Skripal after the poisoning. Gebrev felt his first nausea 20 hours after several Russian agents left Bulgaria as tourists. At first he felt a burning sensation in his eyes, then dizziness came and he began to see blurry. He collapsed the next day at work dinner. Doctors have found that it is poisoning. But they did not find out what substance. Less than a month later, Gebrev felt sick again. And again, it was not long after other Russian agents left Bulgaria, according to the Bellingcat server. The Bellingcat server also wrote that the poisoning could be related to Russian interests in Syria. Gebrev's weapons by detour reached troops fighting President Bashar Assad - US-backed troops.