Hundreds of civil servants and local employees working for German institutions in Russia will need to leave the country or lose their jobs in the coming days following an order by Moscow.
abc.net.au/news/russia-set-to-expel-hundreds-of-german-employees/102402532Hundreds of civil servants and local employees working for German institutions in Russia will need to leave the country or lose their jobs in the coming days following an order by Moscow, Germany's Foreign Ministry has said on Saturday.German employes will have to leave the country by June 1
Starting from June, Russia will slash the number of people that Germany can employ in its embassies or institutions in Russia in the education and cultural sectors, the ministry said. Both German and local Russian employees are affected, the ministry said, without giving precise figures on each category of staff.Germany moved away from Moscow since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, financially and militarily supporting Kyiv in the conflict.
The news was first revealed on Saturday in the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung, which spoke of a "diplomatic declaration of war by Moscow" against Berlin.
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