Moscow fired back at European leaders on Tuesday after being accused of involvement in a 2014 explosion at an ammunition depot in the Czech Republic and accusing the west of having a mass anti-Russian hysteria.
According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, he made the remark, denying that Moscow was responsible for tensions in the west, even though tens of thousands of Russian troops were being gathered near the border with Ukraine.
His remarks come in response to accusations from the Czech Republic surrounding the explosion in Vrbetice that killed two people. Czech police have released photos of suspects who look a lot like two suspects previously accused of involvement in the poisoning of a former Russian spy in the UK.
‘Czech authorities have announced that the two GRU officials charged with attempted murder of the Skripals in Salisbury, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, were also behind the deaths of two civilians and an explosion in the Czech city of Vrbetice, Says the British Foreign Office in a statement obtained by CNN.
In response to the findings, Czech officials moved to expel more than a dozen Russian diplomats, a move that was met with reciprocal expulsions of Czech diplomats from Moscow.
Russia’s foreign ministry has described the Czech government’s designations as ‘based on unfounded and outrageous excuses’, accusing Prague of trying to please the US.
It was “an attempt to please the United States against the backdrop of recent US sanctions against Russia, and the Czech authorities have even surpassed their overseas masters in this regard,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. sake said.