Foreign minister: Czechs may take more vigorous action in claiming compensation from Russia

The Czech Republic may decide to take a more vigorous course of action in claiming compensation from Russia for the 2014 explosions at a munitions depot in in Vrbětice, Moravia, Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský told Czech Television. He did not elaborate what such steps might involve. It is now exactly one year since the country’s intelligence services concluded that the explosions which killed two people and caused over a billion crowns in damages were caused by Russian agents. Eighteen Russian diplomats were expelled from the country in the wake of the revelation and Czech-Russian relations have been at freezing point since. Russia has consistently denied the claim that its agents were involved in the blasts.