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Lithuanian prosecutors say the Russian military reconnaissance service was behind the attack on the arson on the IKEA furniture store in the Baltic state of Vilnius last year.
Two Ukrainian suspects were arrested – one in Lithuania, the other in Poland – for the attack, which the prosecutor Arturas Urbellis called “the act of terrorism”.
He said that the intermediary investigation had established that “this was due to military intelligence, with security services.”
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Lithuania “confirmed our suspicions that the responsibility for the disposal of fires in the shopping centers in Vilnius and Warsaw is Russian secret services.”
“It’s nice to know before the negotiations. This is the character of this state,” he wrote in a message on X.
Russia has denied repeated allegations in NATO that its secret services are engaged in sabotage operations across Europe.
Russia was accused of Series of parcels of fires This is aimed at courier companies in Europe last July.
Security experts consider it as a systematic campaign “hybrid war” to undermine European support for the defense of Ukraine from the Russian invasion, which began in February 2022.
The attack in Vilnius did not cause victims last May, but this month, a similar attack destroyed a huge shopping center in the Polish capital Warsaw.
Urbelis’s prosecutor said two suspects – both teenagers – held a secret meeting in Warsaw and agreed to ignite stores in Lithuania and Latvia for a reward of 10,000 euros ($ 11,000; 8,400 pounds) and BMW.
