Lithuania accused Russia on Ekia Store Fire in Wilneyus

The Lithuanian prosecutors say Russia’s military intelligence service Gru was behind a arson attack on a IKEA furniture store in Baltic State capital Villonius last year.

Two Ukrainian suspects have been arrested – one in Lithuania, the other in Poland – on the attack, the prosecutor Arturus Urbelis called “an act of terrorism”.

He said that the investigation of middlemen established that “it is associated with military intelligence, with security services”.

Poland Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Lithuania “had” confirmed our doubts that there are Russian secret services responsible for setting fire in the shopping center in Wilneyus and Warsaw. “

“It is good to know before the conversation. The nature of this state is,” he wrote in a post on X.

Russia has repeatedly denied allegations by NATO countries that its secret services are engaged in sabotage operations across Europe.

Russia was convicted for one Parcel fire range of fire Courier companies were targeted in Europe last July.

Security experts see it as a systematic campaign of “hybrid warfare” to reduce European support to protect Ukraine against the Russian invasion started in February 2022.

The arson attack in Villnius last May did not cause the number of casualties, but a similar attack that month destroyed a huge shopping mall in Polish Capital Warsaw.

Prosecutor Urabelis said both suspects – both teenagers held a secret meeting in Warsaw and had agreed to set fire to shops in Lithuania and Latvia for reward of € 10,000 ($ 11,000; £ 8,400) and a BMW.