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Moscow: Seven EU diplomats have to leave the city
Photo: Sergei Bobylev / imago images / ITAR-TASS
The dispute between Moscow and Prague over an explosion probably caused by Russian agents in an ammunition depot in 2014 is coming to a head.
Russia is now expelling seven EU diplomats because they showed solidarity with the Czech Republic.
As the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced in Moscow, four diplomats from the Baltic states and three others from Slovakia were expelled from the country.
A fierce dispute is currently smoldering between the Czech Republic and Russia over the secret service affair, which is why Prague and Moscow have already expelled numerous diplomats from the opposing side.
The background is explosions in an ammunition dump in Vrbětice in eastern Czech Republic in 2014, for which Prague most recently blamed Russian intelligence services.
Two people died in the process.
The allegations sparked a diplomatic crisis between Prague and Moscow.
In solidarity with the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania as well as Romania also expelled Russian diplomats.
asc / AFP / Reuters
