Clear message in Czech newspapers today - "Russian terror", "who were the Russian killer agents" etc. The GRU sabotage was to prevent delivery of some weapons Ukraine purchased in Czechia - and it kind of worked, that batch was blown up. Was it worth it? Rosatom is now being kicked out from the Dukovany nuclear power plant tender and Kremlin seems to have very seriously antagonized yet another country in EU.
@kravietz
Really baffling those first two comments there. Smh.
Russia's blatant aggressions reek of either incompetence or boldness. I don't like one over other.
@whirli The challenge of Western countries is that they don't really have much options unless they were ready for an equivalent response, because this is certainly what Putin would understand, as he understood Turkey shooting down Russian jet that notoriously violated Turkish air space. The problem is that this way you effectively resort to the methods of your opponent, and Western countries try to claim moral superiority - as if buying gas from Putin was somehow better...
@kravietz Like always in representative democracy: follow the money.
I still remember how here in Finland Nord Stream 1 and 2 just sort of cruised through the parliament and noone patted an eye. There was our chance to play hard ball against Russia but big money won and here we are again: fucked.
Our elected and not-so-elected leaders in EU can talk all they want and impose sanctions against Russian elite but we will still have our gas coming from Russia. Those words and sanctions doesnt sound so convincing anymore.