BREAKING. Czechia expels 18 (!) diplomats after discovering that GRU's unit 29155 - same guys we proved were behind the Skripal and Gebrev poisonings - were behind the explosions at Czech ammunition factories in 2014.
In fact, Czech police are certain that Alexander Mishkin and Anatoly Chepiga were behind the explosion of 50 tons of ammo that left two Czech citizens dead in 2014.
The events took party in mid-October 2014. This is exactly when we had geolocated Chepiga to have been in Prague - the way we did that was quite unusual and involved some Dali and some Warhol. bellingcat.com/resources/how-…
According to police, the two spire-chasers arrived in Prague on 13 October 2014 and left via Austria on October 16. They had declared an intent to visit Vrbětice - where the ammo plant is located. The explosion in ammunition depot No. 16 occurred on October 16 at 9:25.
Again, according to Czech police - at the time of their visit, a Bulgarian arms trader was purchasing arms from the Czech warehouse - which were assumed to be exports for Ukraine. As we disclosed, Bulgarian arms trader/manufacturor Gebrev was poisoned by the GRU 6 months later.
At about the same time, explosions took place at Bulgarian arms depos - which we hypothesized had been triggered by this same GRU unit 21955 - a total of 8 undercover agents from this unit traveled to Bulgaria in late 2014 and early 2015.
Here's a story on these 8 officers: bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
Read more details from @RESPEKT_CZ respekt.cz/agenda/za-vybu…
Just confirmed that indeed, on that day - 16 October 2014 - Gebrev was procuring ammunition that was supposed to be loaded at the Vrbětic ammo depot. This provides the final answer why GRU nearly killed Gebrev, his son, and his production director in April 2015.
What Czech police hasn't discovered, it appears, is that not only these two "poster boys" of the GRU - but several more members of unit 21955 - including their whole management team - came to Czechia at that same time. We will publish an investigation asap.
One important aspect: both Mishkin and Chepiga were bestowed "Hero of Russia" awards by Putin in late 2014/early 2015. We always assumed it was over their involvement in Crimea. *This* successful operation in Czhechia, however, makes it a much more likely explanation.
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