Lithuania accuses Russia of lighted from Ikea store in Vilnius

Lithuanian prosecutors claim that the Russian military intelligence service GRU was behind an attack on arson at a furniture store IKEA in the Baltic State Vilnius capital last year.

Two Ukrainian suspects were arrested – one in Lithuania, the other in Poland – because of the attack that prosecutor Arthrees Urbelis called an “act of terrorism”.

He said the investigation of the intermediaries found that “this is related to military intelligence, with security services.”

Poland Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Lithuania “confirmed our suspicions that responsible for fires at shopping centers in Vilnius and Warsaw are Russian secret services.”

“It’s nice to know before the negotiations. That’s the nature of this condition,” he wrote in a post of X.

Russia has denied repeated claims by NATO countries that its secret services are involved in sabotage operations across Europe.

Russia was charged with a series of fires on parcel This is aimed at courier companies in Europe last July.

Security experts view this as a systematic campaign of Hybrid War to undermine European support for Ukraine’s defense against the Russian invasion, which began in February 2022.

The arson in Vilnius last May did not cause casualties, but this month, such an attack destroyed a huge shopping center in Polish in Sofia.

Prosecutor Urbelis said the two suspects – the two teenagers – had a secret meeting in Warsaw and agreed to set fire to stores in Lithuania and Latvia for a prize of 10,000 euros ($ 11,000; 8,400 British pounds) and BMW.