2021-04-22 17:35:20 GMT2021-04-23 01:35:20(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BRATISLAVA, April 22 (Xinhua) Slovakia on Thursday expelled three Russian diplomats and gave them seven days to leave the country.
Announcing the decision, Prime Minister Eduard Heger said that Slovakia was acting in solidarity with the Czech Republic, which had ordered a group of Russian diplomats to leave the country in a dispute over the alleged involvement of Russian spies in an ammunition depot explosion in 2014. In connection with the situation in our geopolitical area and current events in the Czech Republic, to which we hereby reiterate solidarity and full support, and after a thorough evaluation of the information of our intelligence services . I would like to inform you that three representatives of the diplomatic mission of the Russian Federation must end their operations and leave the territory of the Slovak Republic within seven days, he said in a statement.
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Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhanek said Russia won’t be allowed to have more diplomats in Prague than the Czechs currently have at their embassy in Moscow
Czechs expel more Russians in dispute over 2014 depot blast
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PRAGUE, Czech Republic – The Czech Republic on Thursday ordered 63 more Russian diplomats to leave the country, further escalating a dispute between the two nations over the alleged involvement of Russian spies in a massive ammunition depot explosion in 2014.
Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhanek said Russia won’t be allowed to have more diplomats in Prague than the Czechs currently have at their embassy in Moscow. All others have to leave by the end of May, he said.
The Czech secret services have repeatedly warned that Moscow had a disproportionately high number of diplomats at the embassy in the European Union nation, using it as a base for undercover spies.
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