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Rachel Clun

Russian agents set fire to Lithuanian Ikea ‘because its colours are the same as the Ukrainian flag’

Lithuanian prosecutors said Russian military intelligence was behind the arson attack on an Ikea store in Vilnius - (REUTERS)

Russian military agents set fire to an Ikea store in Lithuania last year because “Ikea’s colours are the same as Ukraine’s flag”, prosecutors alleged, labelling the attack an “act of terrorism”.

The arson attack in Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, came just days before a shopping centre in nearby Poland was also torched.

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