Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke about the April visit to The Hague by Russians, considered by the Netherlands as members of the GRU. According to him, the information about the trip was not kept secret, and cyber-espionage charges were nothing more than "megaphone diplomacy", which the Netherlands adheres to.. "It was a routine trip, they did not hide: neither when they checked into the hotel, nor when they arrived at the airport, nor when they visited our embassy. And they were detained, they were not explained, they were not allowed to contact the Russian representatives in our embassy in the Netherlands, they were asked to leave, "the foreign minister noted, according to TASS. He stressed that the situation was more like confusion, calling it a misunderstanding. Moscow did not focus on what happened then, but six months later, the "expulsion" came back to Russia on the Russian side. About three weeks ago, the Dutch media broke up a cyber attack. Diplomats of the Russian Federation sounded the alarm and summoned the Ambassador of the Netherlands to his office. "We did not say anything intelligible," - said Lavrov. However, this did not prevent the Netherlands from calling the Russian ambassador to the Foreign Ministry in order to hand a note of protest. The reason - accusations of journalists in cyber espionage. When the representative of the diplomatic department inquired: “Where are the concrete facts?”, The Dutch sent him to the upcoming press conference of the country's Defense Ministry. “I think that once again we have an example of“ megaphone diplomacy ”, we have an example of neglecting the legal mechanisms that have been created and exist to address emerging problems between any countries,” the minister concluded.. He confirmed that the Russian Foreign Ministry invites the Ambassador of the Netherlands to discuss this problem in detail and provide a detailed answer to the Dutch colleagues.. "This is, in fact, the whole story," summed up the foreign minister..

The invitation of Lavrov was received by the Ambassador of the Netherlands in Moscow Rene Jones-Bos. She appeared in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, RIA Novosti reports. Recall last week the Netherlands attributed Russia to cyber espionage. It was about the evidence in the case of the crash of "Boeing" over the Donbas. Also, the Russian kidnappers were allegedly convicted in an attempt to hack data from the OPCW. The Netherlands sent one and the other.