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Czechs will ask allies for solidarity action including expelling Russian intelligence officers Reuters 4 hrs ago
PRAGUE, April 20 (Reuters) - The Czech Republic will ask European Union and NATO allies for solidarity action including expelling Russian intelligence officers from embassies in their countries, acting Foreign Minister Jan Hamacek said on Tuesday.
Hamacek said he has summoned Russia s ambassador in Prague to inform him of a further Czech reaction after the country evicted 18 Russian embassy staff over suspicions Russian secret services were behind a 2014 arms depot explosion. (Reporting by Jan Lopatka and Robert Muller; Editing by Alison Williams)
Skripal Hit Men Blamed for Blast Shaking Czech-Russia Ties Bloomberg 2 hrs ago Peter Laca and Lenka Ponikelska
(Bloomberg) The Czech Republic blamed the same Russian agents accused of poisoning former spy Sergei Skripal in the U.K. for a deadly 2014 blast that has done the worst damage to Prague-Moscow ties since the fall of communism.
After both sides expelled a record number of diplomats, the Czechs are pondering a further response after Russia left just a skeleton staff at the Czech embassy in Moscow.
With global concern growing about Russia’s military buildup on the border with Ukraine and treatment of jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis held back from escalating the dispute.