The Kremlin has summoned Norway’s ambassador to Moscow in protest after a number of Russian nationals have been arrested in Norway and charged with illegally flying drones.
Norwegian Ambassador Robert Kvile used to be advised the arrests have been “unacceptable” and that Moscow denounced them as “politically motivated” and having “nothing to do with the principles of fair and impartial justice,” in step with a remark launched via the Russian overseas ministry.
Moscow stated it referred to as on Norwegian government to “put an end to these Russophobic actions and persecution of Russian citizens on the basis of their nationality”.
The overseas ministry in Oslo showed to Norway’s TV2 information that the assembly that came about used to be held “in a good tone,” and that the ambassador “took the opportunity to inform [the Russians] about Norwegian sanctions legislation” which bans all Russians from flying drones in Norway.
Nearly a dozen Russians were arrested in Norway in fresh weeks for flying drones or photographing delicate websites.
One of them, a Russian citizen who left Russia to flee mobilisation within the military, used to be sentenced remaining week to 90 days in jail for flying a drone “several times” within the south of the rustic.
Although he simplest photographed and filmed landscapes, the Norwegian court docket dominated that he had violated the overflight ban that Norway, like any different Western nations, has imposed at the Russians following the invasion of Ukraine.
Last month, the Russian embassy in Oslo criticised the “psychosis” it stated had gripped Norway, a NATO member with which Russia stocks a 198km border within the a long way north.
