If all EU members have not yet rallied this joint action supported by the United States, the removal of embassy staff suspected of being spies is massive.
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It has materialized at different times, but it is a common action, supported by the United States, that member countries of the European Union (EU) have made up with mass expulsions of ” “Russian” diplomats identified as spies.
Wednesday, March 30, Slovakia announced the expulsion of no less than thirty-five diplomats by regretting with regret that after the previous evictions over the last two years, the Russian diplomatic mission has not shown Interest for proper work on our territory “. In mid-March, a matter of espionage involving the Deputy Military Attaché of the Russian Embassy had been made public by the prosecution. The diplomat had been filmed in the process of paying a Slovak informant, known as a contributor to a Prorusse information site. The Deputy Military Attaché had been immediately expelled, as well as two of his colleagues.
Threat on National Security
The day before, Tuesday, March 29, Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands acted almost simultaneously. Twenty-one presumed spies were invited to leave Brussels, four “experienced diplomats” to leave Dublin while the Government of The Hague prevented that seventeen of the sixty-five members of the Russian Embassy, taxed by “intelligence officers” , leave the kingdom. Dutch leaders spoke of a threat to national security.
In Ireland, Simon Covevey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, explained that the activities of the affected Russians were not “in accordance with international standards for diplomacy”. The decision was made in accordance with Article 9 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, has also announced its department. The Labor opposition even demanded the expulsion of the Russian ambassador but the Prime Minister Micheal Martin, said he wanted the diplomatic channels remain open with Moscow, in the interest of Irish citizens living in Russia and To continue to communicate, explained a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Belgium has expelled members of the Russian embassy in Brussels and the Antwerp Consulate. In the fall of the fall of 2021, the authorities had already targeted eight Russian representatives at NATO, directly related to the internal intelligence services (FSB) and military (GRU). Since the 1970s, the country with the European Union and NATO has identified many networks that were also members of the Belgian officials working for Moscow.
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