Moscow-Sana
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova confirmed that NATO has no evidence of the involvement of any of the employees of the Russian diplomatic mission to the deported alliance in any "malicious" activities.
The Russian TASS news agency quoted Zakharova as saying today: "We must realize that NATO has systematically destroyed relations with Russia for choosing the logic of the Cold War," noting that NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg had an important role in this process.
Stoltenberg had previously claimed that "the decision to expel Russian diplomats from Brussels was taken on the basis of intelligence information" without mentioning any evidence to prove the charges against them.