At the same time neither the name of the deported diplomat nor his position in the Foreign Ministry was indicated. In the meantime, "he has already left the country," said the spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the Marjan Bez. According to her, this was done "on the basis of the principle of reciprocity". The Embassy of Belarus in Kiev has not yet commented on these words. On Monday, November 20, the State Security Committee of Belarus accused Ukrainian journalist Pavel Sharoyko of espionage, he faces up to 15 years in prison. "Coordination of his intelligence activities" carried out by Igor Skvortsov, said in the KGB. This person in the department was called an employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. Skvortsov left the territory of Belarus yesterday. The decision to declare persona non grata of the adviser of the Ukrainian embassy in Belarus was explained by the senior research fellow of the Russian Institute of Strategic Research Oleg Nemensky. He also told how Kyiv affected this.

The deportation of the person concerned is "the most traditional measure that is being applied," said the expert to "360". "Obviously, we decided to make this a public event - to express public discontent with the behavior of Ukraine," he suggested.. Thus, Minsk expressed its protest, "there are no other ways," added Nemensky. In Belarus, they finally noticed "Bandera or the power of the pro-Bandera in Ukraine," making the country "too uncomfortable neighbor," said the expert..