“They have been declared undesirable persons in accordance with Article 9 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations,” the Austrian Foreign Ministry said on Twitter.
In addition, the authorities asked two diplomats from among the representatives of the Permanent Mission of Russia to the UN to leave the territory of the republic.
Earlier, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania declared the Russian diplomat persona non grata.
In turn, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the Russian side would respond to the expulsion of the embassy diplomat in Lithuania.