According to Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, Rome has expelled 30 Russian diplomats as part of a coordinated European response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

“We have dismissed 30 Russian diplomats for concerns of national security,” Di Miao told Italy’s Rai television in Berlin, according to information verified by the ministry in Rome.

Di Maio said earlier Tuesday that Russia’s ambassador to Italy, Sergey Razov, had been called “to tell him of the Italian government’s decision to remove” the diplomats “as ‘personae non grata.’

The action follows France and Germany’s decision on Monday to remove a large number of Russian diplomats in response to the attack.

Over the weekend, scores of bodies were discovered in mass graves or littering the streets in the village of Bucha, near Ukraine’s capital Kyiv.

The Kremlin has refuted Western claims that Russian military were at blame.

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