MOSCOW: Russia on Tuesday lashed out at Stockholm and confirmed it had expelled a Swedish diplomat in retaliation for the Scandinavian country turfing out one of Moscow’s diplomats.
Russia’s foreign ministry said in a statement that it had recently declared a Swedish diplomat “persona non grata” in a tit-for-tat move after the “hostile actions by the Swedish authorities”.
“The responsibility for the consequences of this provocation lies squarely with Stockholm,” the statement said.
Sweden said Monday that Moscow had kicked out one of its diplomats as “a response” to an earlier expulsion of a Russian diplomat by Stockholm.
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Source: theSun
