The State Bureau of Investigation has fully proven the involvement of Russian special services in the explosions in 2014 of military warehouses in the Czech Republic, where weapons were stored for Ukraine, as well as military warehouses in Svatovo, Lugansk region in 2015.
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The State Bureau of Investigation announced this at a briefing.
On September 29, employees of the DBI, in cooperation with the SBU and with the procedural guidance of the Office of the Prosecutor General, reported suspicions to members of the organized group:
- former head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Igor Sergun (headed the department until 2016),
- Putin’s former security guard Alexei Dyumin, who from 2013 to 2015 served as head of the special operations forces of the Russian game,
- Commander of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Major General Valery Flyustikov,
- to the commander of the “161 Center for Training Special Purpose Specialists” of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Major General Andrei Averyanov.
General Averyanov is now part of the inner circle of Russian dictator Putin and is often present at official meetings at the highest level.
Also, more than 25 direct organizers and perpetrators of sabotage from among the Russian special services received suspicions.
Among them are well-known lovers of the “Solber Spiers” Anatoly Chepiga and Alexander Myshkin. Suspicion was also conveyed to the accomplices of Russian saboteurs—traitors from Ukraine. One of them directly controlled the UAV that dropped explosives on Svatovo. This is a citizen of Ukraine with the call sign “Start”, who in 2014 joined the terrorist organization “Lugansk People’s Republic”, and then began working for the Russian special services.
After completion of all examinations, it is planned to report suspicion to more than 50 active military personnel of the Main Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Federation, who committed sabotage on the territory of Ukraine and the EU.
The DBR will provide law enforcement agencies of EU countries and partners with information about all identified military personnel of the Russian GRU to check whether they are on the territory of these countries for the purpose of planning further sabotage.
The Czech “case of Myshkin and Chepiga”
During a joint investigation with representatives of Czech law enforcement officers, DBI employees established that it was Russian saboteurs who blew up military warehouses in the Czech Republic in 2014. An important role in this sabotage operation was played by Myshkin and Chepiga, famous for their attempt to poison the Fiddlers in Solebury.
Using a similar scheme, they committed sabotage on October 29, 2015, on a military personnel in Svatovo. Let us remind you that as a result of the explosion, a fire occurred, which resulted in the detonation of ammunition that hit military equipment.
As a result of explosions and detonation of ammunition due to an enemy attack, a significant amount of military equipment (76 units), missiles and ammunition (more than 3 thousand tons) was destroyed. The state suffered more than UAH 71 million in material damage. Three Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen and one civilian were killed.
A version of the involvement of this group in explosions at other military warehouses in Ukraine and abroad is currently being worked out. Today it can already be asserted with a high degree of probability that before most of the explosions, it was precisely these game units and performers who stood in Ukrainian and foreign warehouses.
Russian special forces are suspected of organizing and managing the preparation of sabotage both in Ukraine and the Czech Republic – committing, with the aim of weakening the state, explosions aimed at the mass destruction of people and the destruction and damage of objects of important defense significance, that is, committing a criminal offense under Part 1 .3 tbsp. 28 and art. 113 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
In April 2021, Czech media reported that Russian intelligence workers who participated in the poisoning of Russian double agent Sergei Skripach in the UK in 2018, the same “Alexander Petrov” and “Ruslan Boshirov”, whose real the names, as investigators later found out, are Anatoly Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin.
It was these individuals who visited Czech ammunition depots as excursionists before the explosions, the Czech publication Respekt reported. Moreover, precisely at the time when both had an ordered visit to a warehouse in the Czech Republic, they were just preparing to ship weapons purchased by the well-known legal Bulgarian merchant of such goods, Emilian Gebrev, who, most likely, was supposed to transfer them to Ukraine, which suffered from Russia’s war against it, and therefore became the target of attack for the GRU.
Later, in 2015, he was also the target of two attempted Novichok poisonings, according to a Bulgarian investigation, because he supplied weapons to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs and its National Guard, which were resisting Russian hybrid aggression in eastern Ukraine.
Source: Racurs
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