Interior minister: Czechia will continue to seek compensation for Vrbětice blasts

Czechia will continue to seek compensation from Russia through diplomatic channels for the ammunition depot explosions in Vrbětice in 2014, Interior Minister Vít Rakušan said at a press briefing on Monday. The explosions killed two people and caused close to a billion crowns in damages. Martin Smolek, of the Foreign Ministry's legal and consular section, said that while there was no hope of getting Russia to take responsibility for the attack at present, the situation could change in the future.

Minister Rakušan said the police have proof  that the Vrbětice explosions were carried out by members of the Russian military intelligence agency GRU, whose motive was to prevent the delivery of weapons to the places where the Russians were conducting operations.