"So many people have texted me to say 'for God's sake, why aren't you expelling the Russian ambassador and the rest of his team?'
"My job as a foreign minister is to try and think ahead here. We are going to have Irish citizens, hundreds of them, living and working in Russia. "We have many Irish citizens still in Ukraine too. I need to make sure we have lines of communication open so that I can help those people and do my job. "Even if you fundamentally disagree with someone, as we do with Russia right now, and you're trying to hold them to account as we are trying right now, you still need to keep lines of communication open," Coveney continued."Does that mean that we won't be expelling some Russian diplomats and some operatives that are not diplomats in the next few days? No, it doesn't, we may well do that.
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