Another 100 Russian diplomats had been deported in the past two months. The British reluctance to act came despite the effective warning of the British Foreign Secretary, Liz Troy, that the West’s relations with Vladimir Putin’s Russia were over. Tras said at a dinner for NATO foreign ministers that the NATO-Russia founding act, the basis for co-operation between Moscow and NATO, was over. He said: “The engagement season is over. We need a new approach to security in Europe based on resilience, defense and deterrence. “There is no time for false comfort. “Russia is not backing down, but is regrouping and repositioning itself to push harder for eastern and southern Ukraine.” Trash added that this would require a new approach to those countries that may be at risk of being trapped in Russia’s web – Moldova, Georgia, Finland and Sweden. This may require spending more diplomatic resources to monitor and analyze Russia, and some diplomats argue that deporting Russian diplomats from the UK will only lead to deportations from an already-stripped Moscow embassy. In 2018, Britain deported 23 Russian diplomats after Moscow refused to explain how a Russian-made neurotic agent was used on Sergei Skripal, a former spy, in Salisbury. Russia has said in a statement that it did not consider the British and Russian embassies to be the same size, demanding that more than 50 British diplomats leave. The United Kingdom does not disclose the size of its embassy in Russia, but previous deportations are known to have removed the United Kingdom from a wealth of political intelligence and research expertise. The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trinto, became the Western leader who was more willing to formulate the issue of continued diplomatic relations, saying that if Canada deported Russians, Moscow would be obliged to implement reciprocal measures – thus reducing the number of Canadian eyes and ears in Russia. . “I am not sure that the symbolic gesture of excluding Russian diplomats from what they are doing in Canada is worth the cost of losing our diplomats in Moscow,” he said. In the last seven days Poland has deported 45 Russian diplomats, Germany 40, France 35, Slovenia 33, Italy 30, Spain 25, Belgium 21, the Netherlands 17, Denmark 15, Latvia 13, Greece 12, Portugal 10, Estonia 7, Ireland four, Sweden three, the Czech Republic one and Luxembourg one. Lithuania has said it is deporting the Russian ambassador. The deportations took place in two waves, some in mid-March, but a large harvest following the release of images of alleged Russian war crimes. The UK’s continued refusal to join its European allies has already been criticized by the Labor Party, given how many reserves the UK has in solidarity with other Western embassies in the wake of Scripal’s poisoning. The deportations were backed by Donald Trump, who ousted 60 Russian diplomats. A total of 29 Western countries deported 145 Russian diplomats. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grusko said he wanted to maintain diplomatic relations with the West, but vowed to retaliate. Grusko said that European countries that interrupt the work of Russian diplomats are harming their own interests.
