(VOVworld) - The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said Moscow perceives the circumstances with the Russian Consul General in Odessa As an unfriendly act and will take appropriate response. Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Grigory Karasin said on Friday in response to Ukraine’s expulsion of Valery Shibeko, Russia’s Consul General in Odessa.
Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Grigory Karasin |
He said the Russian side will take necessary retaliatory measures, as is customary in diplomatic practice.
In face of continuing clashes between Ukrainian government troops and separatists in the east, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francoise Hollande, and leaders of Russia and Ukraine had a talk on the phone on Friday. Clashes have continued in Ukraine’s eastern part regardless of the Mink II ceasefire agreed among Russia, Ukraine, France, and Germany in February.