Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Maria ZakharovaMOSCOW, Apr 3 A series of recent expulsions of Russian diplomats from Western countries is aimed at ensuring that the embassies are drained of blood, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. completely different things are being hidden, this is a demonstrative position of the collective West, accusing us of creating a crisis, trying to punish us politically in this way,» Zakharova said on the air of the Evening with Vladimir Solovyov program on the Russia 1 channel. «Somewhere they immediately talk about political component, which is still so discordant, but it is concluded in one thing: just do everything so that Russian diplomats, Russian embassies are bled dry,» she noted. «Naturally, if 45 people are expelled, as was done in Poland, diplomats, dozens, as was done in Bulgaria and other Eastern European countries. It has already been announced, there have been leaks that this chain will be continued,» Zakharova explained. According to her, «this is done specifically so that Russia cannot be represented by its voice in these countries, neither by political contacts, nor by its informational position.» «I'm not talking about economic activity,» Zakharova added.
