DISINFO: Czechia is ruled by American and British intelligence agencies
SUMMARY
(The Czech Republic has now announced the results of the investigations into the 2014 explosion) ... because the authority in Czechia and its security services are subordinate to the American and British agencies.
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Czechia has now taken this step after it responded to American pressure and dictates because it couldn't say no. It is known .. that Czech intelligence is directly subordinate to its American counterpart, not to President Milos Zeman.
It is clear that the Czech Republic today cannot take its own decisions and is not independent and that is why its relationship with Russia has deteriorated. And now its relationship is following a path dictated by the West, especially the United States of America.
RESPONSE
An unsubstantiated pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the Vrbětice ammunition warehouse bombings in the Czech Republic, attempting to ridicule the revelations about the GRU's involvement by launching groundless claims that the actions of Prague were due to Western and US pressure.
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and the temporary Minister of Foreign Affairs Jan Hamáček announced on 17 April 2021 that the Czech intelligence services collected evidence demonstrating Russian involvement in the 2014 Vrbětice explosion.
According to Mr Babiš, the first discussions around the GRU’s involvement took place on 7 April 2021.
Prague's findings were independently corroborated in the course of an investigation jointly conducted by Bellingcat, The Insider (Russia), Der Spiegel (Germany), and Respekt.cz (Czech Republic).
The Czech investigation into the explosions gained new momentum after the 2018 Salisbury poisonings when the news magazine Respekt said investigators received new information that two Russians identified by Britain as the main culprits in the Salisbury attack, both members of military intelligence sabotage and assassination squad known as Unit 29155, turned out to be the same men Czech investigators had long suspected of involvement in Vrbetice explosion but had not been able to identify earlier.
See other examples of these disinformation narratives about Russia as a faultless victim of the West in our database, such as the affirmation that it is NATO and not the Kremlin who is involved in the Donbas conflict; denials that Russia had any role in the poisoning of Sergey Skripal or the downing of MH17; or claims that neither the US Intelligence Committee report nor the Mueller report found any evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 US elections, that there is no proof that Russia tried to influence the Brexit referendum, that “absurd” accusations against Russia are an attempt to demonise it, that the West invented Navalny’s poisoning to uphold the myth of aggressive Russia, and that Czech allegations aim to overshadow failed attempt on Lukashenka's life.