Russia behind Ikea arson attack in Lithuania, prosecutors say

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Last year, in the IKEA store there was a fire in the IKEA store, and at least one of the suspects in Eastern Europe with other subversive events, according to Lithuanian prosecutors.

Arthur Urbelis, LithuaniumThe Prosecutor General of the Organized Crime said that Russia has petitioned with IKEA Arson and the chain of mediators with other incidents.

“The organizers of these actions are Russia. It is associated with military intelligence, security forces, “Friday said on Monday.

Russia is accused of sabotage throughout Europe, a large number of Western intelligence, parcel bombs and actions of vandalism in recent months. Officials have said that Russia often pays people, including low-level criminals, attacks.

Last month, the Polish court sentenced a Ukrainian man to eight years in prison for planning sabotage and arson operations on behalf of Russia. Polish authorities last week blamed Belarus With the attack on the Big DIY store of Warsaw on behalf of the Russian intelligence. Last year, a man found guilty of paying a foreign intelligence paid in the UK while setting up a Ukrainian business in East London.

The eldest friends of the Chatham House described the eldest friends of the Chatham House as far as isolated PinPriks, but Russia’s hybrid war could have a serious risk.

“If you touch the random noise of obviously meaningless vandalism on IKEA and shopping centers, instead of the targeted and damage to communication and logistics infrastructure, it becomes clear how this campaign was damaged.

Authorities also investigate whether Russia has been in a large operations of sabotage in the Baltic Sea over the last two years, after the gas anchors were cut off by the anchors of the ship.

The Kremlin has denied the accusations of the hybrid war of European governments.

Lithuanian prosecutors treat IKEA fire as terrorism and believe that criminals are two Ukrainian citizens.

MAY Last year was arrested a suspect while he was in the Latvian capital Riga, such as a fire attack According to Lithuanian ProsecutorsAt the time of a number of attack, the suspect agreed to pay 10,000 euros for both Vilnius and Riga attacks, they added.

The suspect still placed an earthen device in the IKEA store on the evening of May 8, about 4 am about 4 AM. The suspect had already returned to Warsaw, where they received BMW 530 as a reward to fill the task, prosecutors were added.

The second suspect is currently arrested in Poland, and some of the investigation will be transferred to the Polish authorities, Friday said. He seems to have doubts about criminal actions in Poland.

The Lithuanian prosecutor noted that IKEA was deliberately, as the retailer of the furniture was closed all its stores in Russia.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has stated that the Lithuanian Prosecutor’s Office has “approved our suspicions” that Russia’s security services were responsible for opening fire to Vilnius and Warsaw shopping centers. “It is good to know before the negotiations. This is the nature of this state, “he wrote in X.

Estonian court Seven people have been convicted The last year of the car vandalizing the country’s internal affiliations on the Russian Interior and the Russian intelligence instructions.

Additional Reports of Charles Clover in London