China News Service, April 26. According to a report from the Russian Satellite Network on the 26th, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that Russia will expel an Italian embassy in Russia as a response to the expulsion of Italy.
According to reports, according to an official statement from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a staff member of the Italian Embassy in Russia must leave Russia within 24 hours.
Earlier, the Italian government announced on March 31 that it would expel two Russian diplomats on the grounds that they were involved in intelligence transactions.
The report pointed out that recently, relations between Russia and Western countries have continued to deteriorate.
In recent weeks, many countries including the United States, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia have expelled the staff of Russian diplomatic missions for different reasons.
In this regard, many officials from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the State Duma, and the Federal Council (upper house of parliament) stated that the United States is the "general plan" of this diplomatic expulsion war, and that many countries expel Russian diplomats have "traces of the United States" behind them. , "To closely follow the pace of the United States."
On April 26, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zakharova announced that the United States was included in the list of "unfriendly countries". The countries on the list are not allowed to hire Russian citizens to work in their diplomatic institutions.