Ukraine’s foreign ministry has asked senior diplomats from the Russian Embassy in Kiev to leave the country in response to Russia’s provocative detention of the Ukrainian consul in St. Petersburg, the state news agency reported Wednesday.
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nikolenko said that Ukraine strongly protested the illegal detention of the Ukrainian Consulate General in St. Petersburg on the 16th and ordered him to leave the country within a limited period of time, all the allegations of the Russian side is false, “in response to this Russian provocation, the Russian Embassy in Kiev senior diplomats must leave Ukrainian territory within 72 hours from April 19.” ”
According to RIA Novosti quoted the Russian Federal Security Service announced on the 17th, the Agency arrested the Ukrainian Consulate General in St. Petersburg on the 16th Sosonyuk, Russian media said, Sosonyuk met with a Russian citizen the same day, and attempted to obtain the Federal Security Service and law enforcement database internal information.
