Moscow considers the expulsion of ten Russian diplomats from Sofia as another provocation, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said today, quoted by TASS.
“We view this as another provocation, an attempt to stand out in the Western race over the rapid destruction of relations with Russia, without thinking at all about the consequences, about the national interests and aspirations of our own people,” Zakharova said.
“This unfriendly step, like all the previous ones, will receive an adequate response,” says a ministry spokesman, thanking “numerous Bulgarian citizens who remain immune to anti-Russian propaganda, understand the essence of what is happening and publicly declare their disagreement with such a short-sighted line.”
Zakharova called Sophia’s actions “a demarche of unprecedented scale” and recalled that this is already the eighth expulsion of the Russian diplomatic mission in Bulgaria since 2019.