Slovakia will send three Russian diplomats. Reports about it Reuters.
They must leave the country for seven days.
Earlier, the Czech Republic Foreign Minister Yakub Kulgank said that the Republic will reduce the number of employees of the Russian Embassy in Prague, thereby equating him to the number of employees of their diplomatic confinement in Moscow. In addition, the Czech Republic called on European partners to do the same.
The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharov promised that the country would respond to the anti-Russian measures of the Czech Republic. In addition, the Russian side is ready to respond to a possible coordinated expulsion of diplomats from EU countries.
According to the counting of the Czech Foreign Ministry, now 27 diplomats and 67 technical staff work in the Russian embassy in Prague. At the same time, five diplomats and 19 technicians operate in the Czech diplomat in Moscow. Thus, after the new measures of the Czech government, five Russian diplomats should remain in Prague.
Kulgank said that Moscow should withdraw his dipsothers until the end of May.