“This (removing the flag. - RT ) happens when the embassy officially stops its work,” RIA Novosti quotes her statement.
According to Zakharova, in the West, instead of clearly reporting on the evacuation of their diplomatic staff from Ukraine, because Western countries can prepare provocations, they began to talk about the fact that Russia took the embassy out of Kiev because of the alleged preparation of an “invasion”.
Earlier it was reported that, according to media reports, the state flag was removed from the British diplomatic mission in the Ukrainian capital, the lights are off in the building and there are no guards near it.
More details in the material RT.