Moscow expels 24 Italian, 27 Spanish diplomats

MOSCOW, 18 May 2022, (TON): Moscow expelled 24 Italian and 27 Spanish diplomats, according to the Russian foreign ministry, in tit-for-tat responses to the expulsion of Russian diplomats over the Ukraine conflict.

Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Russian news agencies “the ministry said in a statement that 27 employees of the Spanish embassy in Moscow and the Spanish Consulate General in Saint Petersburg have been declared persona non grata.”

Italy has slammed Russia’s expulsion of the diplomats as a hostile act.

France earlier strongly condemned the expulsion of 34 of its diplomats by Russia, a tit-for-tat move by Moscow after Paris ordered some Russian staff to leave.

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