Today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine sent a note declaring one of the advisers of the Russian Embassy in Kiev an undesirable person due to activities incompatible with his diplomatic status.. About this LIGA. net said Foreign Ministry speaker Oleg Nikolenko.

The diplomat must leave the territory of Ukraine within 72 hours.

The issue of the return to Ukraine of the Ukrainian consul from St. Petersburg is also being resolved, Nikolenko noted..

On April 16, the FSB of the Russian Federation detained an employee of the Ukrainian Consulate General in St. Petersburg for several hours. The FSB claims that the consul Sosonyuk allegedly collected classified data on the Russian security forces. Ukraine denies charges and calls his detention a provocation.

Russia issued an order to Sosonyuk to leave the country before April 21, in response, Ukraine threatened to expel the senior diplomat of the Russian Embassy in Kiev Chernikov.

The Russian Federation said that if Ukraine insists on declaring the employee of the embassy, \u200b\u200band not one of the consulates, persona non grata, then they will be forced to declare persona non grata an employee of the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine called it blackmail.