“Through the provocation of the Russian Federation with detention of the Ukrainian consul in St. Petersburg, a senior diplomat of the Russian Embassy is expelled from Ukraine, ” a statement Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. He must leave the country within 72 hours, starting April 19.
The Foreign Ministry stressed that Russia is satisfied with provocations against employees of diplomatic institutions of Ukraine against the background of the escalation of the situation at the Ukrainian borders and massive anti-Ukrainian propaganda.
Due to the detention of the Ukrainian consul in St. Petersburg on April 16, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry protested. They noted that they completely reject the charges against him.
“Such actions of the Russian authorities grossly violate the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961 and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations since 1963 and once again confirm that Russia has chosen a course of further aggravation with Ukraine,” the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry notes.
Moscow requires from the previously detained Ukrainian consul to leave the territory of the Russian Federation by April 21.
About detention
On the morning of Saturday, April 17, it became known that the Ukrainian consul Alexander Sosonyuk was detained red-handed in St. Petersburg by officers of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia. According to the intelligence service, the detainee at a meeting with the Russian tried to obtain information of a classified nature.
The arrest of the consul of Ukraine in the Russian Federation Gossip began that this entire diplomatic conflict would intensify. According to gossip, Russia is ready to sever diplomatic relations with Ukraine and they themselves are leading young stupid diplomats along this path, but they are building this case in such a way that the initiative will come from Ukraine, as an “inadequate country.” Video from the FSB, According to the FSB, the consul in St. Petersburg was interested in the closed bases of license plates, the FSB base and the base of criminal cases, he is suspected of espionage.
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Video of the detention from the FSB.
how celebrated According to the FSB, Sosonyuk’s activities were assessed as hostile towards Russia and incompatible with the status of a diplomat. The secret service said that measures will be taken against the diplomat in accordance with the norms of international law.
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