China News Service, April 27th, a comprehensive report, since mid-April, the diplomatic expulsion war between Russia and Western countries such as the United States and Europe has intensified. Since the United States took the lead in attacking Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic and other seven Central and Eastern European countries have followed them. Later, after expelling Russian diplomats one after another, the Russian side also retaliated and even increased its counterattack.

On the 26th, a new wave of diplomatic expulsion was staged. The NATO country Romania joined the "camp" against Russia. On the same day, Russia took counterattacks against Italy and Ukraine to expel diplomats.

According to analysis, the diplomatic expulsion war continues or aggravates tensions between Russia and the West.

On March 25, local time, U.S. President Biden held the first official press conference since he took office more than 60 days.

The United States and the 6 NATO countries "play against" Russia

The diplomatic expulsion war intensifies

　　On April 15, the diplomatic expulsion war between Russia and Western countries such as the United States and Europe "kicked off" and became more and more intense.

　　In the first wave, the United States took the lead in "problem" against Russia and announced the expulsion of Russian diplomats. Seven countries in Central and Eastern Europe, including Poland, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic, quickly "followed up" within seven days.

　　The United States announced the expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats on the 15th, and Russia subsequently expelled 10 American diplomats.

However, Russia only made a diplomatic reciprocal response to the United States. For Poland, the first to "support" the United States, and the "big troublemaker" the Czech Republic who accused Russia of being involved in the Czech arsenal bombing, it took an extra counterattack and expelled more. The diplomats of these countries stationed in Russia.

　　Poland expelled 3 Russian diplomats, Russia expelled 5 on "+2"; Czech Republic expelled 18 Russian diplomats, Russia also expelled 20 "+2", and even restricted the time of departure to 24 hours.

　　The Czech Republic expressed its "dissatisfaction." The Czech embassy is much smaller than the Russian embassy. The reduction of 18 people in the Russian embassy in the Czech Republic may not have much impact. However, the Czech Republic has lost 20 people and the embassy is unable to operate normally and will be paralyzed.

The Czech Republic strongly urged Russia to allow the expelled diplomats to return to Russia and gave an ultimatum.

　　Russia directly "just go back", indicating that Russia is not "the kind of country that can accept ultimatums from other countries" and "keep your ultimatum for use within NATO."

　　Immediately afterwards, Czech friends in the Middle East and EU within NATO, Slovakia and the three Baltic countries Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia all "jumped out" to support the Czech Republic, and Russia will not be soft on this.

Estonia and Latvia each decided to expel one Russian diplomat, and Lithuania expelled two. Russia's attitude was "you wait!" and responded that "their diplomats may have begun to understand who must pack their bags."

　　The first wave of the expulsion war between Russia and the West was relatively large, mainly because the United States "got up", and then these new European countries in Central and Eastern Europe, but also members of the NATO organization "charged into battle", Britain, Germany, France, and Italy. Other major European countries did not join.

On April 21, local time, Russian President Putin delivered a State of the Union address in Moscow.

A tooth for a tooth, Russia's counterattack is "full of firepower"

The relationship between Russia and the West may be tense

　　When the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to the counterattack against the three Baltic countries on the 23rd, the outside world thought that this round of intensive diplomatic deportation wars would come to an end for a while. Unexpectedly, three days later, a new wave of diplomatic deportation wars "staged" again.

　　On the one hand, the NATO country Romania has also joined the ranks of expelling Russian diplomats. On the other hand, Russia has no hesitation in finding Italy, which expelled Russian diplomats in March, to "calculate old accounts," and at the same time, it offered countermeasures against Ukraine.

　　On the 26th, the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement stating that Alexei Gresayev, the deputy military attache of the Russian Embassy in Romania, violated the relevant provisions of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and declared him an “unwelcome person”.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded directly, saying, "You are very familiar with the procedures of Russia's response measures."

　　On the same day, Russia also responded to Italy's expulsion of Russian diplomats in March.

The Russian side declared an assistant military attaché of the Italian Embassy in Russia as an "unwelcome person" and restricted him to leave the country within 24 hours.

However, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed that the Russian decision was baseless and unfair.

　　It turned out that on March 31 this year, the Italian Gendarmerie Special Operations Group reported that it had arrested a naval officer of the country and a military attache of the Russian embassy in Italy, and the two were accused of espionage and endangering national security.

Since then, Italy announced the expulsion of two Russian diplomats.

Italy believes that this is a legitimate action taken to protect its own security interests.

　　Also on the 26th, Russia once again launched a counterattack against Ukraine, declaring a staff member of the Ukrainian Embassy in Russia as an "unwelcome person" and restricting him to leave the country before April 30.

The Russian side believes that this is a reciprocal response to the previous actions of the Uzbek side.

If the Uzbek side takes hostile actions against the staff of the Russian embassy and consulate in Uzbekistan, Russia will take further countermeasures against Uzbekistan on a reciprocal basis.

　　Recently, Russia has staged a diplomatic expulsion war with Western countries such as the United States and Europe. It also coincides with the tense situation in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Zelensky had previously extended an olive branch to Putin to ease the situation in the east, hoping to meet Putin, but from Russia From the perspective of Ukraine’s diplomatic counterattack measures, Russia’s attitude towards Ukraine is still “tough”.

　　Even in the face of the United States, Russia has directly "put down harsh words". If the United States continues to escalate its sanctions, Moscow is prepared to take more measures.

Some analysts say that a new round of diplomatic expulsion may cause further tensions between Russia and the West.