The Russian ambassadors to Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were summoned to the international ministries of these countries, in step with Russian media.
The RIA data agency cited a spokesman for the Russian embassy to Poland, and a marketing and marketing consultant of the embassy in Lithuania. TASS referred to unnamed diplomatic sources. The agencies failed to give a reason for the summoning.
All 4 countries are participants of the EU. The bloc at the moment recalled its ambassador to Moscow “for consultations” in the wake of the Sergei Skripal poisoning, after EU leaders stated there changed into “no believable different explanation” for the use of novichok nerve agent in Salisbury completely different than its deployment by the Russian authorities.
Along with Ireland and France, the 4 were actually apt pondering the expulsion of Russian diplomats.
The Kremlin has denied any involvement in the attack earlier this month, which additionally left a police officer critically unwell and compelled a collection of completely different bystanders to scrutinize treatment.
Last week in a joint divulge, the European Council stated it “concurs with the UK authorities’s review that it is extremely likely that the Russian Federation is responsible”.
“Member states will coordinate on the penalties to be drawn in the sunshine of the solutions equipped by the Russian authorities. The European Union will stay carefully focused on this subject and its implications,” it added.
Theresa Would possibly merely’s spokesman stated on Monday morning that completely different countries’ actions in direction of Russia following the attack were a subject for them, but welcomed the help shown at final week’s summit.
The UK has expelled a collection of Russian diplomats. A plane carrying extra than 20 diplomats and their households left Stansted final week after Ms Would possibly merely stated they were “undeclared intelligence officers”.
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