Lithuania links Russia to Ikea store arson attack

Russia’s military intelligence orchestrated an arson attack on an Ikea store in Vilnius last May, and a suspect is in custody in Poland along with others tied to similar incidents, a Lithuanian prosecutor has alleged. Lithuania’s investigation traced the arson to Russia through a complex network of intermediaries, said Arturas Urbelis, a prosecutor at the Lithuanian General Prosecutor’s Office. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Western officials have accused Russian operatives of various acts of sabotage across Europe. Moscow has repeatedly denied any involvement.