MOSCOW, September 15 North Macedonia has declared three persons persona non grata employees of the Russian embassy, said the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova.
““On September 12, the authorities of North Macedonia, without explanation, declared three diplomats of the Russian embassy in Skopje persona non grata,” says a message on the department’s website.
According to Zakharova , Moscow sees in the actions of North Macedonia a desire to show “Western guardians” its importance in the fight against the “imaginary Russian threat.” She emphasized that the authorities of the republic continue to aggravate the confrontation, driving relations between the countries that are already in crisis into a dead end.
The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs added that Moscow will not leave this attack from North Macedonia unanswered.
After the start of a special military operation in Ukraine, Russia was faced with an unprecedented expulsion of its diplomats; several hundred employees of Russian embassies had to leave.
Moscow every time declares the illegality of these actions and the right to retaliate, employees of many diplomatic missions have already left the country.
At the same time, according to presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin regrets such actions by Western countries, as this narrows the opportunities for communication in unprecedentedly difficult conditions.