About 40 Russian diplomats are planned to be expelled from Poland because of their activities that do not correspond to the status of a diplomat, which means espionage in the language of diplomacy, the Polish news agency PAP reports, citing government sources..

According to the publication, on Wednesday morning, the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Poland Sergey Andreev was urgently summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.. There are about 40 names on the list of diplomats who, according to the Polish authorities, carried out espionage activities in Poland that do not comply with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations..

Among others, employees of the Russian embassy in Warsaw.

The publication notes that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs plans to confirm this information on Wednesday afternoon..

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Earlier, Slovakia announced that it was expelling three Russian diplomats.. As it turned out, the decision to deport was made after the Slovak police detained employees of the Ministry of Defense and counterintelligence on suspicion of spying for Russia..