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Italy has ordered two Russian military attachés to leave the country after prosecutors linked them to an espionage investigation that has already led to the arrest of two former Italian intelligence officers accused of passing military secrets to Moscow.
Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani announced on Thursday that the two diplomats, identified as Ivan Petrovich Gorbachev and Mikhail Vasilyevich Astakhov, must leave Italy within three days.
"The Italian government has decided to expel two military attachés from the embassy of the Russian Federation in Italy, involved in espionage activities uncovered by the Rome public prosecutor's office," Tajani said in a post on X.
