Russian Ambassador to Canada Oleg Stepanov. File photoWASHINGTON, March 1 — RIA Novosti. Russian Ambassador to Canada Oleg Stepanov denied reports that the diplomats were going to leave the mission. Earlier on Twitter, a Canadian journalist who collaborated with CNN and CBC, information has appeared that the entire Russian mission is preparing to leave Canada.
"We are ready for any development of events. But at the moment there are no such plans", Stepanov told RIA Novosti.
Earlier, Stepanov reported that the situation around Russian foreign missions in Canada is tense. According to him, near the buildings of the embassy and consulates there are pickets, the participants of which are representatives of the vast Ukrainian community in Canada. Some of them are behaving aggressively and trying to damage the buildings of diplomatic missions and the staff themselves. stoma