“The issue of the expulsion of the ambassador is so sensitive and has such a heavy caliber that we still feel that the time has not yet come to get this heaviest weapon,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
Dvořák noted that Moscow could take actions that would require "more forceful responses."
The Czech Republic took drastic action against Russian diplomacy when it significantly reduced the number of diplomats at the Russian embassy in Prague, he added.
On February 1, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis expressed the opinion that there was "no point" in having Russian embassies in Europe.