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Earlier Thursday, the United States took a similar step, announcing it would send 10 Russian diplomats.
The report of the Polish Foreign Ministry expresses “full solidarity” with Washington’s actions and emphasizes that “the decisions taken and agreed by the Allies are the most appropriate response to the hostile actions of the Russian Federation.”
The ministry added that it had summoned the Russian ambassador and handed him a note saying that three employees of the country’s embassy in Warsaw were considered personae non gratae.
“Such a decision was based on violations of the diplomatic status of these people and actions harmful to the Republic of Poland,” the ministry writes.
UK summons Russian ambassador for ‘malicious activity’ in Moscow
The UK said on Thursday it had summoned the Russian ambassador to express “deep concern” over what it called Moscow’s “pattern of malicious activity.”
The UK Foreign Office said it was referring to “hacking, interference in democratic processes and the mobilization of military forces near the border with Ukraine and in illegally annexed Crimea.”
The ambassador was summoned the same day the United States announced sanctions against Russia and ordered the expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats due to the Kremlin’s interference in the US elections, massive cyber attacks and other hostile activities.
The British government said it “made clear the UK’s support for the president [Joe] Biden’s actions “as the Russian ambassador in London was summoned to Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Philip Barton.”
“It has exposed the UK’s assessment that Russia’s intelligence services are responsible for hacking SolarWinds,” the British Foreign Office said in a statement on last year’s hacking, which cybersecurity experts and Western states blame Russia.
“He informed the ambassador that the UK would continue to work with its allies to identify and counter malicious operations by Russia’s intelligence services,” the report added.
Ph.D. Barton also voiced London’s concern over the recent mobilization of Russian forces along Russia’s border with Ukraine and Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014, a UK Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
“These activities are threatening and destabilizing,” he added. “Russia must end the provocations and reduce tensions in accordance with its international obligations.”
