\n Denmark said Tuesday it is expelling 15 Russian \"intelligence officers\" registered as diplomats in the country following similar moves by a number of EU countries, including Germany and France.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Russian citizens concerned will have 14 days to leave the country, the foreign ministry said in a statement.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"We have established that the 15 expelled intelligence officers have conducted spying on Danish soil,\" Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod told reporters after a meeting in parliament.\n<\/p>\n
\n Denmark wished to send a \"clear signal\" that spying in the Nordic country was \"unacceptable,\" he said.\n<\/p>\n
\n Russia's ambassador to Denmark was informed of the decision early Tuesday, where the government also expressed a \"strong condemnation of Russia's brutality against Ukrainian civilians in Bucha\".\n<\/p>\n
\n \"Deliberate attacks against civilians are a war crime,\" it said.\n<\/p>\n
\n At the same time, Copenhagen insisted on maintaining diplomatic relations with Moscow.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"Denmark does not wish to break diplomatic relations to Moscow. The Russian ambassador and the rest of the embassy in Copenhagen are therefore not included in the expulsion,\" Kofod said.\n<\/p>\n
\n Horrific images of corpses lying in the streets in the town of Bucha north-west of Kyiv, some with their hands bound behind them, following the Russian withdrawal have drawn international condemnation of Russia, and the EU is considering additional sanctions.\n<\/p>\n
\n Moscow has denied responsibility, suggesting the images are fake or that the deaths occurred after Russian forces pulled out of the area.\n<\/p>\n
\n But newly released satellite photographs taken by Maxar Technologies in mid-March, before the Russian withdrawal, showed what appeared to be bodies in some of the same places they were later found by Ukrainian troops and seen by journalists.\n<\/p>\n
\n On Monday, France expelled 35 Russian diplomats, and Germany announced it had expelled a \"significant number\" of Russian envoys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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