Russia claims Hezbollah pager explosions were designed to ‘provoke a major war’

On Wednesday, the manufacturing company of the pagers, Taiwan’s Gold Apollo, said that the exploding pagers were actually manufactured in Hungary.

Moscow on Wednesday said that Russian specialists will investigate the causes of the incident to guard against similar attacks.

“An absolutely thorough investigation of this incident must be carried out. The causes of the incident, the circumstances must be established,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said during a press briefing.

“After that, of course, this should become the subject of study by specialists in order to take measures to eliminate such risks in our country and in other places,” he added.