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Czech PM claims Russia played major role in 2014 ammunition warehouse explosion
- mvolfik 5y agoSome interesting things for context: - Russian embassy in Prague is one of the biggest embassies in CZ - our president is strongly leaning to Russia, lobbying for Sputnik V vaccine even though it's not approved, and verbally dismisses sanctions against Russia - all of this is happening during preparations of Dukovany nuclear power plant expansion, where Russian Rosatom still wasn't dismissed despite clear security risks
- pndy 5y ago> our president is strongly leaning to Russia, lobbying for Sputnik V vaccine even though it's not approved, and verbally dismisses sanctions against Russia Yet Zeman agreed with Babiš on the decision of the secret services finding which led to the expulsion of Russian diplomats. I'm curious about the Dukovany NPP part here - I haven't seen any news services in Poland reporting on this in context of the expulsion.
- utf_8x 5y agoRosatom has been excluded from the selection process since.
- yostrovs 5y agoInteresting: "The Czech police on Saturday evening released images of two men wanted for serious offences. The two are Anatoly Chepig and Alexander Mishkin, the same Russian GRU agents believed to have carried out a failed assassination attempt using the poison Novichok in Salisbury in the UK in 2018." The KGB seems like a very efficient operation.
- T-A 5y agoThe KGB was dissolved in 1991 and later succeeded by the SVR (foreign intelligence) and FSB (federal security). The GRU is the military intelligence agency.
- yostrovs 5y agoThe KGB changed its name. The staff and methods did not change.
- povik 5y agoFrom what I read on this it is surprising to me that the Russian involvement has not been uncovered earlier. The two operatives were official visitors to the warehouse at around the time of the incident. Scans of their fake passports have been on file ever since. It seems they could have easily been recognized as GRU operatives at the latest when their faces became public knowledge in 2018.
- waypoint100 5y agoIf you're a "director" of an ammunition warehouse and screwed up precautionary measures which led to an explosion - what's your best course of actions? a) announce "sorry, i screwed up. Pls fire me" b) blame evil russians
- smt88 5y agoDid you read the article? They provide evidence beyond a simple act of hearsay scapegoating. Also, the Russian government is run by a murderous autocrat. The agencies directly under his control certainly are evil.
- hungryhobo 5y agoThey claimed they have evidence, however it's not clear what the evidence is.
- waypoint100 5y agoYeah, everything they write in articles is true, of course. Qui bono? Obama-Biden administration is major cause of millions of deaths in Middle East, Africa, etc. Yet Obama got a Nobel prize for peace and Biden accuses other of being a "killer".
- frombody 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
- lucian1900 5y agoThe poster isn’t wrong, though. Whether or not the claims are true, the claimant should sort their own problems out first.
- junipertea 5y agoThe claimant is Czech republic in this case.
- a0-prw 5y agoWhat is Russia's motive purported to be?
- helge9210 5y agoCzech munitions were/are compatible with the Soviet era weapon systems used by Ukraine. At the time Ukraine was buying whatever was left at former Warsaw Pact countries. Russia's motive was to deny Ukraine this possibility.
- waypoint100 5y agoIt could be not necessary Russia's motive. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/czech-minister-says-russia-row-205157692.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/czech-minister-says-russia-ro... Imagine if a - let's say Westinghouse Electric Corporation - wants a juicy government contract and wants to kick China General Nuclear and Rosatom out of competition. How would you do that? One way to do it - dig out 7 year old skeleton and drag it through the streets of the town with the mask of Putin. Cheap and effective, ~7 billion $ is at stake.