Flag of Croatia. File photo BELGRADE, April 11 Croatia is expelling 18 diplomats and six administrative and technical staff of the Russian Embassy from the country, the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports. The Russian diplomatic mission in Croatia on Monday confirmed to RIA Novosti that the country's Foreign Ministry demanded to take some of the employees out of the country. Earlier, Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Grlich-Radman said that Zagreb would send several Russian diplomats in connection with the events in Ukraine. «Russian Ambassador (in Zagreb Andrey Nesterenko) was handed a note, which, in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations … the diplomatic mission of the Russian Federation in Zagreb will be reduced to the level of the Croatian embassy in Moscow and a demand is put forward that 18 diplomats and six members of the administrative and technical staff (24 employees in total) of the Russian embassy leave Croatia,» the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Cases of expulsions of Russian diplomats from different countries in 2021-2022
