Sweden on Tuesday announced that it was expelling five Russian diplomats for "activities not compatible" with their diplomatic status, Report informs, citing the Local Sweden.
Sweden's foreign ministry said "five officials at the Russian Embassy in Sweden are being asked to leave the country" due to unspecified activities that are "not compatible with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations".
"Their activities on our territory have not been in keeping with the status as diplomats," Sweden's foreign minister Tobias Billström told state broadcaster SVT.
Billström said that Russia's ambassador to Sweden, Viktor Tatarintsev, had been summoned and requested to ensure that the five embassy employees leave Sweden.
Sweden expelled three diplomats in April last year in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.