The U.S. State department has welcomed Slovakia's determination to expel three Russian diplomats -- a stream that media in Slovakia have linked to the 2019 killing in Berlin of a former Chechen insurrection from Georgia.
State department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus wrote on Twitter on August eleven that the U.S. "applauds the fresh moves taken via Slovakia to give protection to against threats that overseas malign actors pose to its sovereignty."
"[Slovakia] has sent a clear signal that it's going to now not tolerate Russia's politically-influenced criminal acts," Ortagus wrote.
On August 10, Slovak overseas Ministry spokesman Juraj Tomaga observed the three Russian diplomats had violated the Vienna conference on Diplomatic relations and have to leave Slovakia via the end of the week.
in accordance with Tomaga, the determination additionally became a response to the misuse of a Schengen visa issued via Slovakia's consulate in St. Petersburg that led to "a major crime…on the territory of an additional NATO and european member state."
Russian media quoted international Ministry officials in Moscow as saying that Russia will respond to the expulsions "in the same approach."
Slovakia's Dennik N daily suggested that a Russian citizen used a Slovak visa to enter Germany in 2019 and later grew to become a suspect within the Berlin killing of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Georgian countrywide of Chechen foundation.
German authorities apprehended the suspect and prosecutors have accused Russia of ordering the homicide, a charge that Moscow denies.
The investigative web page Bellingcat earlier named the suspect as a Russian citizen, Vadim Krasikov, saying he become a contract killer who grew up in Kazakhstan.
With reporting by way of AFP, Dennik N, TASS, and dpa
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