A Seven-Year Fuse Blows Up Czech-Russian Relations
It is hard to know what is most surprising about the fatal depot story: the timing, the scale of the Czech response, or the operation itself. Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS
It can be disconcerting to discover you have been at war for seven years. The Czech government’s announcement that Russia was behind an explosion in an arms depot in 2014 and consequent expulsion of 18 diplomats has not only brough new acrimony to Prague’s relationship with Moscow, it also speaks volumes about the Kremlin’s wider thinking.
The blast and subsequent fire in Depot 16 in Vrbětrice destroyed 50 tonnes of munitions and killed two workers. Originally assumed to have been the result of an accident, at a dramatic weekend press conference, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš announced that as of Friday, he had received “clear evidence” linking officers from the GRU, Russian military intelligence, was behind it.
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