Earlier, BFMTV reported on the expulsion of 30 diplomats from France, Le Parisien and Le Figaro — about 35. On April 4, the German Foreign Ministry announced the expulsion of 40 Russian diplomats
Alexey Meshkov
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France summoned the Russian Ambassador Alexei Meshkov to notify about the expulsion of diplomats, the BFMTV channel reported, citing sources.
According to the TV channel, the French Foreign Ministry will notify the ambassador about the expulsion of diplomats whose activities “contradict the security interests of France”.
The French Foreign Ministry announced the decision to expel Russian diplomats on April 4. The Ministry did not specify how many employees of the Russian representative office will be affected. BFMTV reported that France will send 30 Russian diplomats. Le Parisien, citing sources, wrote that 35 diplomats would be expelled. The last figure, with reference to the source, was also called the Figaro newspaper.
“Our first duty is always to ensure the safety of the French and Europeans,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Paris clarified that the decision was made within the framework of a single European approach.
Russia will give a “decent response” to the decision to expel diplomats, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told TASS.
On April 4, the German Foreign Ministry announced the expulsion of 40 Russian diplomats. According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany, Elena Berbock, we are talking about diplomats, “who worked every day here in Germany against our freedom, against the cohesion of our society.” The head of the German Foreign Ministry in her Twitter clarified that Berlin made this decision after the appearance of photos from Bucha (Kiev region).
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The ambassador of Germany, Sergeynechaev, expressed “categorical rejection of the one-sided accusations of Berlin, which hastened, without waiting for an independent investigation of the events in the city of Bucha, to side with the Kiev regime, which had previously been repeatedly convicted of spreading false information,” the embassy statement said.
On April 2, the Ukrainian authorities and Western media, including Reuters and AFP, published photos from Bucha, which showed corpses lying on the streets. The Russian Defense Ministry called the footage a provocation and stated that the Russian military was not involved in the killings of civilians.The ministry stressed that while the city was under the control of the Russian military, “not a single local resident was injured.”
In mid-March, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania announced the expulsion of several Russian diplomats. At the same time, Slovakia announced a similar decision. On March 23, Russian Ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev told about Warsaw’s expulsion of 45 employees of the mission. Moscow responded by announcing mirror measures against European diplomats.
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