Czechs expel 18 Russian envoys, accuse Moscow over ammunition depot blast

FILE PHOTO: A car enters the Russian embassy in Prague, Czech Republic, March 26, 2018. REUTERS/David W Cerny/File Photo

PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic is expelling 18 Russian diplomats over suspicions that Russian intelligence services were involved in an ammunition depot explosion in 2014, its government said on Saturday.

The central European country is a NATO and EU member state, and the expulsions and allegations have triggered its biggest row with Russia since the end of the communist era in 1989.