IKEA arson in Vilnius made two Ukrainians at the instructions of the Russian special services - the prosecutor's office of Lithuania

"The indictment was signed, the case was transferred to the Vilnius District Court, one person has been charged with crimes related to terrorism," the chief prosecutor of the Department of Investigation of Organized Crime and Corruption of the Prosecutor General's Office said at a press conference. During the preliminary investigation, it was found that the direct executors of the crime are two citizens of Ukraine under 20 years.

The prosecutor added that they were in a difficult financial situation. The young people were promised about 10,000 euros and a BMW car. One of the suspects at the time of the crime was a minor. The woman also found a bag in the park and did not believe her eyes, looking inside (photo) "Revenge for a relative affected on May 2 in Odessa": MP called motifs of Ganul's killer (video) "crawled" in a second: Roszmi showed the dumplings.

Our body involved in favor of Russian military structures and special services, as part of a pre -formed organized terrorist group in order to commit crimes of a terrorist nature near Lithuania and Latvia, together with other persons who are conducting a separate pre -trial investigation. The suspect was charged with three articles - committing a terrorist act, preparation for terrorist purposes and illegal storage of explosives. Currently, one of the men is in custody in Poland.

Law enforcement agencies of both countries cooperate and coordinate their actions. The authorities link the arson of the shopping center to the fact that the IKEA group of companies left Russia after the start of a full -scale invasion. Then 17 stores and 3 plants were closed in the Russian Federation. In addition, the company supported Ukraine. It originated on the night of May 9. No one was injured during the incident, but there were serious losses of almost 500,000 euros.

In the first half of last year, in general there were arson in other countries of the European Union. The security services then claimed that the planned action could be. In Moscow, they were either commented, or denied the involvement of Russian special services in them. Recall that the Polish military lost 240 anti -tank mines during exercises in July 2024. As a result, the mines were found by accident, in the train car near the warehouse belonging to the Swedish furniture retailer of IKEA.