Russia suspends NATO mission after staff members are expelled | NATO News

Russian FM stated that starting from November, NATO staff on military missions in Moscow will be disqualified.

Russia will suspend its activities on NATO missions from next month in response to NATO’s request. Expelled Eight Russians.

Russian news agencies quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday as saying that from November 1st, the staff of NATO’s military mission in Moscow will be disqualified, and NATO can pass its ambassador to Brussels if necessary. The pavilion interacts with Russia.

“Because of the purposeful steps taken by NATO, we basically do not have the proper conditions for basic diplomatic activities. In response to NATO’s activities, we have suspended the work of our Permanent Mission to NATO from November 1st, including the Chief Military Representative’s work. It may take a few days to work,” Lavrov said.

“Secondly, we suspend NATO’s military liaison work in Moscow. The certification of its employees will be recalled on November 1. Third, we stopped the work of the NATO Information Bureau established under the Belgian Embassy.

Earlier this month, NATO expelled eight members of the Russian delegation, calling them “undisclosed Russian intelligence officials.”

At that time, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko accused NATO of duplicity and treating the idea of ​​the so-called Moscow threat as a demon.

“After the dramatic end of the Afghan era, how could they live without the’Russian threat’ monsters. They can’t,” he told the Russian Kommersant.

After NATO annexed the Crimea Peninsula of Ukraine, it suspended its pragmatic cooperation with Russia in 2014, but maintained channels for high-level meetings and military cooperation.