Ireland leaves the Russian embassy without fuel

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Ireland has gone a step further in economic sanctions against Russia.

Companies supplying heating oil and hot water to Moscow's embassy in Dublin have decided to cut off supplies in retaliation for the war in Ukraine.

The Russian diplomatic mission has had to ask the Irish Government to intervene to alleviate the situation, which threatens to leave the building at 186 Orwell Road

at the end of this week.

"I have no sympathy for the Russian government or the Russian embassy," said Deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, however.

Faced with the sudden cut off of supply, the embassy has contacted all possible companies in the Dublin metropolitan area, with no apparent success to date.

It is estimated that the current fuel reserves will be exhausted in a matter of days and that up to 3,000 liters would be needed to cover the needs of the diplomatic mission in the coming months.

The Irish government is consulting its "obligations" to determine if it should help the Russian embassy, ​​in compliance with the Vienna convention.

But government sources confirmed to The Irish Mirror that the Foreign Office "cannot force companies to do business with the Russians".

The Bank of Ireland has also decided to suspend the accounts of the Russian embassy, ​​and it is not ruled out that other companies will join the unusual

which has increased since the episode in which a

in protest telling the war in Ukraine, in early March.

expulsion of diplomats

Ireland has decided to expel this week four Russian diplomats accused of espionage, in line with other European countries (Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Denmark and Sweden) that have put a total of

Michéal Martin's Prime Minister is under increasing pressure to expel Ambassador Yuriy Filatov, for his statements this week alleging that

The Labor Party has meanwhile called for the expulsion of the Russian ambassador to London, Andrey Kelin, who has harshly criticized the shipment of British-made Starsteak surface-to-air missiles to Ukraine and has warned that the shipments will be considered "legitimate targets".

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