Foreign Minister: Russian consulate workers must leave Czechia by March 12

Diplomats who were working in the Russian Consulates in Brno and Karlovy Vary will have to leave the Czech Republic by March 12, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky told Czech Television on Sunday. If they do not, they will not be recognised as diplomats, he said. The Consulates of the Russian Federation in the two Czech cities were closed by the Czech government in response to Russian aggression against Ukraine last Thursday.

The Foreign Minister also said that the Russian Embassy in Prague will be limited to seven diplomats and 25 administrative workers.