"Moscow will answer in a mirror": The Russian Foreign Ministry promised a response to the expulsion of Russian diplomats from Slovakia
Slovakia is expelling three Russian diplomats from the country, all of them have already been declared non grata. This was stated by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia, Juraj Tomaga.
The Slovak foreign ministry refused to name the expelled Russian diplomats, stating that their actions "were contrary to the Vienna Convention." According to the Slovak special services, all declared non grata Russians were engaged in espionage activities under diplomatic cover. They must leave Slovakia within this week.
- added Tomaga.
In addition, according to the representative of the Slovak Foreign Ministry, abuses with visas issued by the Consulate General of Slovakia in St. Petersburg have been revealed.
- he said.
The Slovak Foreign Ministry did not explain whether these two events are related and how, but there is a version that Russian diplomats are allegedly somehow connected with the murder in Berlin in 2019 of a citizen of Georgia, a citizen of Chechnya, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, who entered the country on a Slovak visa.
Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry stressed that in response to the expulsion of Russian diplomats from Slovakia, Moscow will respond in a mirror image.
According to the expert of the Valdai Discussion Club Artem Kureev RIA News, Washington's request may be behind the expulsion of Russian diplomats. According to the expert, recently Slovakia has adhered to an anti-Russian course, actively cooperating with the United States.
- he added.
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