Arms dealer ‘100% sure’ Russian agents behind blast at Bulgarian depot

Emilian Gebrev says explosion on Sunday is latest of repeated attacks against him by GRU operatives

A Bulgarian arms dealer who survived an apparent novichok poisoning in 2015 said he was 100% sure" that Russian operatives were behind an explosion and subsequent fire at one of his depots in the country on Sunday.

There is no way this could be an accident, there was nothing in the building that could have detonated without outside interference," Emilian Gebrev told the Guardian in a telephone interview.