From October 1, the Finnish Consulate General in St. Petersburg will be closed. In addition, the Kremlin announced on Thursday that it would expel nine Finnish diplomats from the country. The government in Helsinki had previously expelled employees of the Russian embassy.
Finland’s policy was “confrontationally anti-Russian,” it said. For example, Russians are discriminated against when it comes to entry visas to Finland, and the country’s entry into NATO also threatens Russia’s security. Finland has been a member of the Defense Alliance since early April.
The Finnish government had already expelled nine employees of the Russian embassy in Helsinki in June and accused them of espionage. The next blowback would be that the Russian consulate general in Turku, Finland, could be closed. President Sauli Niinistö announced this on Twitter.
It is a “hard response from Russia” and he has already spoken with the leaders of the ruling parties to prepare similar measures. Since the beginning of the war, there has been a wave of mutual expulsions by diplomats from Western countries and Russia.
Source: Krone
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