Belarus expelled a Czech diplomat Friday in a tit-for-tat move amid deteriorating relations between Minsk and European Union nations.

In a statement, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry linked the event to “cultivated bias against Belarus by the Czech authorities.”

The Czech Republic expelled a Belarusian diplomat after announcing on Sept. 8 that it had broken up a spy network in Europe that was controlled by Minsk.

At the time, the Czech intelligence agency, also known as BIS, said in a statement that a team of European agents discovered spies from Belarus’ KGB security agency in several European countries.

Poland announced shortly afterward that it arrested a Belarusian spy. It said it would expel a Belarusian diplomat who “supported the aggressive action of the Belarusian state against

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