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Czech diplomats Zdenek Kubicek and Petra Novotna, who have been accused of spying on the territory of Ukraine, have already returned to Prague. The Czech Republic may respond with expelling Ukrainian diplomats, media quoted Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg as saying.

"There is a practice which envisages a response," the iDNES.cz Web site quoted Schwarzenberg as saying.

The Czech foreign minister added that this is a common practice in diplomacy.

Kyiv claims that defense attache of the Czech embassy Col. Zdenek Kubicek and military attache Maj. Petra Novotna were engaged in spying activities and collected classified military-technical and military-political information in Ukraine.

They were declared personae non grata and sent from Ukraine.

Earlier, Czech Foreign Minister Schwarzenberg said that the expulsion of the two Czech diplomats from Ukraine may be a response to Prague’s granting political asylum to Ukraine’s former Minister of Economy Bohdan Danylyshyn.

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