First Deputy Prime Minister, the Acting Head of the Foreign Ministry of the Czech Republic, Jan Hamachek, made the expulsion of all Russian diplomats from the country. The appropriate application is published on the Facebook policy page.
Gamachek said he expected another reaction from Moscow to the expulsion of the Czech Republic of Russian diplomats. “I am ready for everything. Even to building relationships from the node. This means that we will send them home everyone,” the politician stressed.
On April 18, Moscow declared people of non-Grata 20 employees of the Embassy of the Czech Republic. These were responses to expulsion from the Czech Republic 18 Russian diplomats during the day earlier. They are suspected of working on Russian intelligence services, which Prague considers it involved in the explosions in Vrbetice in 2014. In addition, the Czech Republic announced the search for Russians Alexander Petrova and Ruslana Bolsharova. It is argued that they were at the site of the explosion in stock in Vrbetice in October 2014.
explosions occurred on October 16 and December 3, 2014, two people died as a result of the first. Exploded, presumably ten thousand kilograms of ammunition, including medium-range missiles. The cause of what happened remained unknown. According to one of the versions, the explosion happened due to the negligence of workers.