Moldova orders mass expulsion of nearly 60 Russian diplomats, cites spying concerns
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The Moldovan government has announced that the number of accredited diplomats and "technical and administrative" staff working at the Russian Embassy in Chisinau will be reduced from 84 to 25, according to Daniel Vodă, a spokesperson for Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean, Deschide.MD reported on July 26.
"We can announce that the number of diplomatic posts has been reduced to 10 and the number of technical staff to 15," Vodă said.
“This was a principal decision that the Chisinau authorities conveyed to the representative of the Russian Federation this morning at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.”
Later, the Moldovan Foreign Ministry said that Chisinau's decision is the result of numerous unfriendly actions against the Republic of Moldova, as well as attempts to destabilize the internal situation in the country.
According to the diplomatic note of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs handed over to the Russian side during the meeting, the decision of the Moldovan authorities should be implemented by Aug. 15.
Earlier, Moldova decided to reduce the number of diplomats at the Russian Embassy in Chisinau.
This happened after Jurnal TV and The Insider published an investigation in which they established that Russian special services were monitoring the Moldovan authorities through antennas on the roof of the Russian embassy.
The report noted that the movement on the roof is especially frequent ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections or visits of foreign delegations to Moldova.
After that, Russian Ambassador to Chisinau Oleg Vasnetsov was summoned to the Moldovan Foreign Ministry to explain the situation.
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