10/2/2023 – Ukraine links deadly 2015 depot blasts to GRU’s Skripal poisoning unit

Two Russian GRU agents wanted for poisoning Sergei Skripal are now implicated by Ukraine in a 2015 major munitions depot attack. In 2014, the same men destroyed an ammo dump in the Czech Republic which was to send ammunition to Ukraine.

Collage by Euromaidan Pres

From Euromaiden Press BY ALYA SHANDRA

Ukraine’s intelligence services claim to have uncovered evidence of a years-long Russian effort to sabotage military sites inside Ukraine and even within NATO borders.

The State Bureau of Investigation (DBR), Security Service, and Prosecutor General’s Office announced Friday they have named 50 operatives from Russia’s special forces in connection with two major explosions in 2014 and 2015 that destroyed stockpiles of weapons intended for Ukraine’s military.

The first incident came in October 2014, when a series of blasts ripped through an ammunition depot in Vrbetice, Czech Republic, that was storing tons of artillery shells destined for Ukraine’s armed forces fighting Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas. Two Czech nationals were killed in the unexplained explosions.

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