The Czech Republic is chasing 18 Russian spies from the embassy in Prague for explosions in a warehouse

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Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš PHOTO: Reuters

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The Czech Republic has expelled 18 employees at the Russian embassy in Prague on suspicion that Russian intelligence services were involved in the explosions in a military warehouse in 2014. This was announced today by Prime Minister Andrei Babish and Acting Foreign Minister Jan Hamacek, quoted by Reuters and AP, BTA reported.

Babis emphasized that the Czech special services had definitely established the intervention of Russian military agents in the large-scale explosions in the ammunition depot, in which two people were killed. Hamacek, who is also interior minister, said the 18 diplomats, identified as military spies, were ordered to leave the republic within 48 hours.

TASS added that, according to Hamachek, the expelled Russians are agents of two Russian intelligence headquarters – the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and the military Central Intelligence Agency (GRU).

The Czech police announced today that they are looking for two men with several passports, incl. and Russian with the names Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, Reuters reported.

These names coincide with those used by the two suspects in the “newbie” poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia in the English town of Salisbury in 2018.

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