ZAGREB, April 6. /TASS/. Croatia will expel some Russian diplomats as a sign of solidarity with NATO and the EU in the wake of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, Croatian Foreign and European Affairs Minister Gordan Grlic-Radman said on Wednesday on the sidelines of the Meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Brussels.
"We will do it (expel some Russian diplomats from Croatia - TASS) out of solidarity [with NATO and the EU] and in response to recent developments, to those horrible scenes from Bucha and other Ukrainian regions," Grlic-Radman said.
Earlier, Croatia declared a Russian embassy employee persona non grata in March 2018 as part of the West’s anti-Russian campaign on the so-called ‘Skripal case’.
On April 3, the Russian Defense Ministry refuted the Kiev regime’s accusations of an alleged massacre of civilians in Bucha. The military agency said that the Russian Armed Forces had left Bucha on March 30, while "the evidence of crimes" emerged only four days later, after Ukrainian Security Service officers had entered the town. The ministry stressed that on March 31, the town’s Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk confirmed in a video address that there were no Russian troops in Bucha. However, he did not say a word about the civilians shot dead in the street with their hands tied behind their backs. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov castigated the episode in Bucha as a "fake attack.".