OTTAWA, April 08, /ITAR-TASS/. Canada’s authorities have issued an order to an officer of the military attache department of the Russian embassy in Ottawa to leave the country within two weeks, local media reported on Tuesday, citing a source in the Canadian department of foreign affairs.

Nothing was said however what this move had been motivated by.

The Russian embassy in Ottawa told ITAR-TASS it did not refute this information but refrained from further details.

No official comments have come so far from the Canadian department of foreign affairs.