Russia Expels Seven Danish Embassy Staff In Tit-For-Tat Move

May 05, 2022

By RFE/RL

Russia's Foreign Ministry says the Danish Embassy staffers "must leave the country within two weeks." (file photo)

MOSCOW -- Russia has announced the expulsion of seven people from the Danish Embassy in Moscow in a tit-for-tat move announced by Copenhagen four weeks earlier.

"They must leave the country within two weeks," the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said in a statement on May 5, exactly one month after Denmark expelled 15 employees from the Russian Embassy in Copenhagen, saying it wanted to send "a clear signal to Moscow that we will not accept that Russian intelligence officers are spying on Danish soil."

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The Russian Foreign Ministry added in its statement that it had also denied a visa to a diplomat at the Danish diplomatic mission, and that it "reserves the right to take additional retaliatory steps to the unfriendly actions of Copenhagen, which will be reported to the Danish side later."

Many European nations and other Western allies have expelled hundreds of Russian diplomats and embassy staff members since Moscow launched its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on February 24.

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