Russia expels 7 diplomats from the European Union because of their solidarity with the Czechs

Russia has expelled 7 diplomats from the European Union because of their solidarity with the Czechs and protested against the heads of diplomatic missions die Unjustified provocative measures taken to expel Russian embassy employees.

The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that Russia was responding to die Measures taken by Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia to expel diplomats from these countries’ embassies, and Mission officials have been informed that Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn continue to openly follow an unfriendly road against Moscow, and that die measures taken by him against Russian diplomats are provocative and unjustified.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said: “The heads of diplomatic missions, on the pretext of false solidarity with the Czech Republic, have vehemently opposed provocative and unjustified measures to evict Russian embassy employees in protested the Baltic States. “

On the basis of the principle of reciprocity, we requested that two employees of the Lithuanian embassy and one employee of the embassies of Latvia and Estonia leave the territory of the Russian Federation within seven days. “