“Austria may be neutral in a military sense, but it is not at all neutral in a political sense,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
Schallenberg clarified that the lack of political neutrality is expressed in support for Ukrainian refugees, sending humanitarian aid to Kyiv and supporting anti-Russian sanctions.
As the Austrian publication Die Presse reported on March 13, the Austrian Foreign Ministry announced to two diplomats of the Russian Embassy that they would be expelled from the country due to “inconsistency with their diplomatic status.”
Moscow said it would respond to this unfriendly step.
The Austrian Ambassador in Moscow will be summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry.