Berlin says Moscow’s expulsion of 40 of its diplomats is ‘unreasonable’

The 40 members of the Russian representations in Germany that we expelled three weeks ago did not work a single day in the diplomatic service during their stay in Germanydenounced in a press release Annalena Baerbock.

Russia announced on Monday the expulsion of 40 German diplomats, in retaliation for a similar move taken in early April by Germany following Russia’s offensive in Ukraine.

It’s about a symmetrical response in a similar decision frankly unfriendly of the German government, taken on April 4, according to a statement from Russian diplomacy.

We expected the proposal now, it doesn’t make sensereaction of the head of German diplomacy.

According to him, the expelled Russian diplomats act for many years and systematically against our freedom and against the unity of our society.

Their work also threatened those who sought our protection, we could no longer tolerate it nor would we tolerate it in the future.Ms. warned. Baerbock.

On the other hand, our colleagues, my colleagues from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who have now been expelled by Russia, really have nothing to blame themselvesassured the minister.

Despite increasingly unfavorable circumstances, they visited Russia with openness, interest and great commitment, to serve our bilateral relations.continued Ms. Baerbock.

With the expulsions being sent today, Russia therefore continues to hurt itselfhe regrets.

In recent weeks, many European countries, including Germany, France, Italy and Spain, have expelled dozens of Russian diplomats.

In some cases, these expulsions were officially supposed to respond to the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine by the Russian army and the abuses attributed to it by the West.

Sometimes they are also accompanied by accusations of spying, as in Belgium or France.

Moscow has promised to respond to each of these measures and dozens of Western diplomats have already been expelled from Russia.