Czech government accuse Russia of involvement in explosion, expel 18 embassy staff
The Czech prime minister, Andrej Babiš, says that the country’s security services have clear evidence that officers of the Russian foreign military intelligence agency the GRU were involved in the explosion of 50 tonnes of munitions at a depot in Vrbětice in Moravia in October 2014 in which two people died. At an extraordinary news conference on Saturday evening the minister of the interior, Jan Hamáček, said that the Prague government was expelling 18 members of staff at the Russian Embassy in the city who had been identified as working for the country’s secret services. The spies ha...