Russia does not intend to tolerate the attitude that is broadcast by the Czech Republic and Bulgaria, said the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov on April 29.
“What the Czechs are doing now, how the Bulgarians are joining them, how the Balts and others are joining them within the framework of this so-called notorious solidarity. We no longer tolerate this. And we clearly demonstrate this. And, as Putin said, this will be the case from now on, ”Peskov said on the First Channel.
He also pointed out the falsity of the accusations of the Czech Republic and Bulgaria against Russia. According to him, such statements are “nonsense” and have no basis at all.
Peskov noted the reluctance of European countries to accept Russia’s desire to maintain friendly relations with them.
“The main thing, after all, is Russia’s desire to be on good terms. For some reason, they stubbornly refuse to hear this first part and the main message of President Putin – neither in Washington, nor in Brussels, nor in other European capitals, “the Kremlin spokesman concluded.
Earlier on the same day, Peskov said that the actions of the Czech Republic and Bulgaria would not go unanswered by Russia. He stressed that Russia’s actions will be carried out in the interests of the country.
Earlier on the same day, it was reported that Sofia announced the impending expulsion of the Russian diplomat from the country. In turn, the Russian ministry promised a response to the expulsion of the diplomat from Bulgaria.
On April 17, Czech Prime Minister Andrei Babis announced that the country’s authorities suspect the Russian special services of involvement in an explosion at an ammunition depot in Vrbetica in 2014. On the same day, the Czech Republic announced its decision to expel 18 Russian diplomats.
Moscow a day later declared 20 employees of the Czech embassy in Moscow persona non grata. The accusations in Moscow were categorically denied, and the fact that Prague does not publish a report on the explosion, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova called evidence of a lie.
As explained on April 23 at the Russian Foreign Ministry, as a result of the mutual expulsions of diplomats, by May 31, seven diplomats, 25 technical staff and 19 people will remain at the embassies of the Czech Republic and Russia.
On April 25, Czech President Milos Zeman said that the republic’s special services had established a connection between the arms dealer from Bulgaria Emilian Gebrev and the explosions at the ammunition depot in Vrbetica in 2014.
On the eve it became known that in Bulgaria six Russians are suspected of involvement in the explosions at military depots. Three of them were charged with the attempted murder of an arms dealer from Bulgaria, Emilian Gebrev.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the same day compared this statement with the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which happened in 1914 and was the reason for the outbreak of the First World War. The minister noted with irony that everything is heading towards the fact that the Russian Federation can also be accused of this.
Svetlana Zhurova, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma’s international affairs committee, on April 28, also noted that such statements are an act of information war.
On April 17, Czech Prime Minister Andrei Babis announced that the country’s authorities suspect the Russian special services of involvement in an explosion at an ammunition depot in Vrbetica in 2014. On the same day, the Czech Republic announced its decision to expel 18 Russian diplomats.
A day later, Moscow declared 20 employees of the Czech embassy in Moscow persona non grata. The accusations in Moscow were categorically denied, and the fact that Prague does not publish the report on the explosion, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova called evidence of a lie.
As explained in the Russian Foreign Ministry, as a result of the mutual expulsions of diplomats, by May 31, seven diplomats, 25 technical staff and 19 people received on the spot will remain in the embassies of the Czech Republic and Russia.
Czech President Milos Zeman said that the republic’s special services established a link between the arms dealer from Bulgaria Emilian Gebrev and the explosions at the ammunition depot in Vrbetica in 2014.
At the same time, he noted that in the intelligence report there is no evidence of the involvement of “agents of Russia” in the explosion. He also drew attention to the fact that the counterintelligence of the republic, even in the closed part of the reports, for six years did not report anything about some “Russian agents”. He did not rule out the possibility that the situation around the story with the explosions in the warehouses in Vrbetica could be a game of the special services.