Czechs expel 18 Russians over huge depot explosion in 2014

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1. Salisbury poisoning agents 'linked to Czech blast'

Source: BBC

Salisbury poisoning agents 'linked to Czech blast'

By Gordon Corera
Security correspondent

17 April 2021

Two Russian men suspected of carrying out the Salisbury poisoning of Sergei Skripal in 2018 are being linked to an explosion at an arms depot in the Czech Republic four years earlier.

Czech police issued photos of Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, who they say were in the country at the time of the blast, which killed two people.

The Czech Republic has expelled 18 Russian diplomats in retaliation.

A senior Russian parliamentarian on Saturday called the claim absurd.

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said the country had to react to revelations tying the blast to Russia's military intelligence service, the GRU.

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"Alexander Petrov" (left) and "Ruslan Boshirov" (Metropolitan Police)