In the barrage with deportations of Russian diplomats more and more European countries are participating.
THE Denmark announced today that he will be deported 15 Russian diplomats for espionage along with other EU countries following allegations of mass graves and killings of civilians in the Ukrainian city Μπουκα.
“This is another example of the brutality, brutality and war crimes that have apparently been committed in Bouka,” the Danish Foreign Minister told a news conference. Gepe Coffont.
“We have established that the 15 intelligence agents who were deported were involved in espionage operations on Danish soil,” he said, adding that no Russian espionage operations would be accepted.
According to the Foreign Ministry, the deportations do not mean that the country intends to cut off diplomatic relations with Moscow.
THE russian ambassador and the rest of the embassy staff are not affected by the deportations.
Officials will have to leave Denmark inside in 14 daysthe minister said after a meeting he had with the parliament’s foreign affairs committee in Copenhagen.
This decision was taken after yesterday, a similar initiative of several other EU countries, including France and Germanyto deport Russian diplomats.
THE Germany declared unwanted persons 40 Russian diplomats, which is tantamount to deportation. France has also decided to deport a large number of Russian diplomats, whose actions run counter to French security interests.
Moscow, which claims that the images of the executed civilians in Bukhara are fake products of Ukrainian and Western propaganda aimed at discrediting Russia, has announced that it will retaliate for the deportations, RIA Novosti reported.
The Italian government has decided to deport thirty Russian diplomats
THE Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio announced that the Draghi government had “decided to deport thirty Russian diplomats for national security reasons”.
Di Maio added that “this measure, taken in agreement with other European and Atlantic partners, has become necessary for reasons related to Italy’s national security and in the context of the current crisis, as a result of the unjustified attack on Ukraine by of the Russian Federation “.
The Italian Foreign Ministry has clarified that it will not deport the Russian ambassador to Rome, Sergei Razov, to whom the decision of Mario Draghi’s government was notified.
From Moscow, finally, the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova stated that its country “will not leave Rome ‘s decision unanswered” and that “the answer given will be appropriate”.
Sweden will deport three Russian diplomats, the foreign minister says
Sweden will deport three Russian diplomats who do not act in accordance with international rules, Foreign Minister Anne Linde said today.
“Today, the Foreign Ministry has. Decided to deport three Russian diplomats, whose work in Sweden is not in line with the Vienna Convention,” Linde told reporters.
The Russian ambassador was summoned to the French Foreign Ministry
France today summoned the Russian ambassador to Paris following France’s earlier decision to expel 35 Russian diplomats in response to the war in Ukraine, the French foreign ministry said.
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