A representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharov commented on the message of the first Deputy Prime Minister and the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Czech Republic Yana Gamachek on the urgent return of Czech intelligence officers to their homeland. She spoke in his Telegram Channel.
The diplomat said that the Czech authorities began to emerge to answer the staff of the special services from the Russian territory even before the publication of the incident with explosions in the warehouse in Vrbetice. “Powerful revelation. Such the topic should be disclosed, gentlemen,” she said.
Zakharov formulated a few questions to Prague related to the statement of Hamachek. In particular, she asked the number of representatives of the Czech special services in Russia, their powers and leadership. The diplomat asked what passports they went to the country and whether they had Russian citizenship.
Zakharov also clarified the meaning of the word “disappeared”, which used the Deputy Prime Minister for Czech agents. “What crimes are committed by these people if the Czech leadership carried out a special operation on their” disappearance “?” – It is interesting.
May 31 began it to be known that Hamachek could jeopardize Czech spies working abroad. We are talking about a statement Policy in connection with the departure of Czech citizens from the country before the beginning of the international scandal over the explosion in the warehouse of ammunition in Vrbetice.
Moscow with Prague complicated the relationship after the Czech Republic accused Russia in involvement in the explosions in the warehouse of ammunition in Vrbetice in 2014. As a result, 18 diplomats sent from the Czech Republic. Moscow, in response, declared 20 employees of the Czech embassy. Later it became known that Russia and the Czech Republic will equalize the number of employees in the embassies. May 29, the Czech Republic left 54 employees of the Russian Embassy with families. According to TASS, on May 31 another 60 Russians returned to their homeland.