The Cubans and three other foreigners attempted to sabotage a private supplier that supplied equipment to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
MIAMI, United States. – Lithuanian authorities identified three people with Cuban citizenship (two of them with dual nationality) among the suspects still wanted for an alleged sabotage plan against a private supplier that supplied equipment to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, in the Lithuanian city of Šiauliai, according to a note of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Lithuania.
According to that report, Lithuania requests the capture of Alexeis Pecora, a Cuban born in 1991; Oemis Romagoza Durruthy, with dual Cuban-Russian nationality, also born in 1991; and Mayra Eukaris de la Lastra Nistal, with dual Cuban-Spanish nationality, born in 1965.
The case has already been sent to court against six defendants, all foreigners, on charges of participation in a terrorist group, attempt to commit a terrorist act and financing of terrorist activities, as reported by the Attorney General’s Office. Artūras Urbelis, chief prosecutor of the Organized Crime and Corruption Investigation Department, said that the indictment was drawn up on January 12 and was presented to the Šiauliai Regional Court on the 14th.
The Prosecutor’s Office maintained that the target was the infrastructure and products of UAB TVC Solutions in Šiauliai, including equipment described as mobile stations for the analysis of the radio spectrum destined for Ukraine, and specified that the most serious charge contemplates sentences of five to 15 years in prison, according to the Lithuanian Prosecutor’s Office.
In their public version of events, Lithuanian authorities linked the case to Russian military intelligence. The Prosecutor’s Office stated that the data from the preliminary investigation give “reasonable grounds” to suspect that the sabotage attempt was carried out “by order and for the benefit” of the Russian GRU.
The Lithuanian Criminal Police outlined a phased plan that included trips to Lithuania for reconnaissance and then arson attempts. Saulius Briginas, deputy director of the Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau, stated that a Spanish citizen and a citizen with dual Spanish-Colombian nationality “arrived with the specific task of setting fire to the radio spectrum analysis stations.”
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, that first attempt failed after the intervention of bystanders and the suspects fled to Latvia, where they were detained before being transferred to Lithuania. Days later, two more suspects, citizens of Russia and Belarus, entered the country to try to complete the attack.
“The individuals poured a flammable liquid, set it on fire and, believing the fire had been successful, left the scene,” Briginas said. “As it later became known, the materials they prepared and the method they used did not represent a serious threat to military equipment,” he added.
The report adds that a Cuban citizen later traveled from Russia to Lithuania and transmitted information about the damage to the organizers, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
Lithuanian authorities also claimed that the goal was twofold: to physically damage aid destined for Ukraine and to fuel a narrative that would erode domestic support for kyiv. “The goal was to create discontent with aid to Ukraine and suggest that a part of Lithuanian society is opposed to supporting Ukraine,” Urbelis said. “The target was chosen both to damage the equipment and to send a propaganda message,” he added.
In this regard, the opponent Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat expressed: “The announcement by Lithuania of the formal prosecution of a terrorist group, in which Cuban mercenary elements linked to the Castro regime and Russia participated as coordinators, comes just hours after it had been agreed in a hearing in the European Parliament to invoke the article of the European Union that calls for the defense of Ukraine against all those who attack it.”
The Secretary General of the Cuban Resistance Assembly added that this fact can be used to eliminate financing to the communist regime of Cuba, coming from Europe.. “The capture of these mercenaries indicates the level of participation, of crude intervention in the affairs of Ukraine of the Castro dictatorship,” he concluded.
