19.03.2024

Russian Officials React to Mass Expulsion of Diplomats From U.S. and EU

— Yury Shvytkin, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma’s Defense Committee:

“In my view, they are pursuing a policy toward breaking diplomatic relations to a greater degree. This confrontation, let’s say, does not benefit global stability. At the same time, the confrontation is a unilateral order from the U.S. and Britain.”

— Alexei Chepa, deputy head of the Duma’s Science and Technology Committee:

“This is collusion. The West is disappointed with these results, this support for Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin by the Russian public in the March 18 presidential elections, where President Putin won 77 percent of the votes.”

— Russia’s ambassador to Lithuania, Alexander Udaltsov:

“I asked if the Lithuanian side had evidence that these people were engaged in non-diplomatic activities. I didn’t get an answer.”

— Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

“The allies of Great Britain lack objective and exhaustive evidence and blindly follow the principle of Euro-Atlantic unity to the detriment of common sense, the norms of civilized international dialogue and the principles of international law.”

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