Diplomatic contacts between Ukraine and Russia are kept to a minimum, so there is no need to expel diplomats, the first vice-speaker wrote on Facebook.

The Verkhovna Rada Irina Gerashchenko.

She reminded that there was no Russian ambassador in Kiev, just as.

Ukrainian in Moscow. In the embassies there are several rank-and-file diplomats.

and consuls, but if they are sent, then the citizens serving sentences in Russia.

Ukraine (whom Gerashchenko calls political prisoners), will not be.

opportunities "to feel minimal support".

"Left the Russian diplomat" - a game that the British authorities started in response to the poisoning in Salisbury of the former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia. London accused the Russian authorities of involvement in the incident, announced the freezing of contacts with Moscow at a high level and sent 23 Russian diplomats. Russia in response sent 23 British diplomats, closed the British Council and the Consulate General of the United Kingdom in St. Petersburg.