Lithuanian prosecutors say Russia’s military intelligence service GRU was behind an arson attack on an Ikea furniture store in the Baltic state’s capital Vilnius last year.
Two Ukrainian suspects have been arrested – one in Lithuania, the other in Poland – over the attack, which prosecutor Arturas Urbelis called “an act of terrorism”.
He said investigation of intermediaries had established that “this is connected with the military intelligence, with the security services”.
Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Lithuania had “confirmed our suspicions that responsible for setting fires to shopping centres in Vilnius and Warsaw are the Russian secret services.”
In other news last week, a man was charged with setting fire to Warsaw store as part of Russian sabotage campaign in Poland