DISINFO: Lithuania is implementing Russophobic policy in the interests of the US
SUMMARY
Lithuanian political and security analysts and journalists from mainstream media try hard to convince society that anti-Russian policy is the right choice. Lithuania is implementing this policy in the interests of the US. Now it linked to a scandal between Moscow and Prague. But this scandal is fake as earlier scandals about Skripal poisoning and attempt to kill Navalny.
RESPONSE
Recurring disinformation narrative representing Lithuania as a Russophobic state and puppet of the US.
Lithuania is supporting Czechia in the context of the Vrbetice incident. The investigation by Czech authorities have established beyond doubt that GRU agents Anatoly Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin, the same individuals considered responsible for the attempted murder of Sergey Skripal in Salisbury in 2018, were behind an explosion in an ammunition storage depot in the Czech location of Vrbetice in 2014, which killed two people. According to investigators, an email supposedly from the National Guard of Tajikistan had requested permission for two individuals -”Ruslan Tabarov” from Tajikistan and “Nicolaj Popa” from Moldova- to visit the storage site and included the scanned image of two false passports with the pictures of both men. The images of “Tabarov” and “Popa” matched those of Chepiga and Mishkin. Prague's findings were independently corroborated by a joint investigation conducted by Bellingcat, The Insider (Russia), Der Spiegel (Germany), and Respekt.cz (Czech Republic).
The attempt to kill Russian oppositional politician Alexey Navalny was not a fake. The politician fell ill during a flight from Siberia to Moscow on the 20th of August 2020. Initially hospitalised in Omsk, at the request of his family he was transferred to Charité hospital in Berlin. At the request of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, a specialist Bundeswehr laboratory carried out toxicological tests on samples from Alexei Navalny. The results of these tests have revealed unequivocal proof of the presence of a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok group.
See similar cases when Lithuania was blamed for Russophobia: Lithuanian and Czechia are playing out an anti-Russian scenario imposed from outside; Lithuania is shamelessly attacking Russia; Lithuania is using Russophobia to attract attention to itself in big European politics.