As relations continue to deteriorate, the Russian government accused the envoys of refusing to meet with the foreign minister.
Russia's Foreign Ministry has questioned the role of Western ambassadors in Moscow, accusing them of interfering in internal affairs.
Tuesday's statement followed complaints from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that ambassadors from European Union countries had refused to meet with him the previous day. The rebuke comes after Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent relations with the West to their lowest ebb in decades.
Foreign Minister Lavrov said on March 4 that his invitation to EU envoys for talks ahead of Russia's March 15-17 presidential election had been rejected. There was no immediate reaction from Western diplomats.
But Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova revisited the topic on Russian state television on Tuesday.
“Certainly everyone has questions: what are they doing and why and how do they interpret their actions on our territory when they are not playing the most important role?” Zakharova declared that Vladimir Solovyov would be the anchor.
Solovyov noted that EU ambassadors attended the funeral of opposition politician Alexei Navalny on March 1, and considered him their representative.
Navalny, whose death in an Arctic prison was announced on February 16, always denied that he was a Western agent.
Zakharova said such actions showed that Western ambassadors in Moscow were interfering in Russian affairs and giving “performances” rather than doing diplomatic work. .
The banner headline on Solovyov's TV program read: “Should we send an EU ambassador?”
Warning to Berlin
Western powers are grappling with what support to give Kiev after Russian forces regained control on the battlefield following a failed Ukrainian counterattack last year.
As the war escalates, diplomatic relations between Russia and the West continue to deteriorate.
Last week, President Vladimir Putin reiterated his claim that Russia is fighting defensively against a Western proxy war that risks triggering a nuclear conflict.
There is little agreement, even at a trivial level.
Last week, Russian media published an audio recording of a meeting between senior German military officials discussing sending missiles to Ukraine. Reports on Monday said the Russian government had summoned the German envoy on the issue, but Berlin said the talks had been scheduled for some time.
Zakharova also claimed on Tuesday that Ambassador Alexander Graf Ramsdorff had also been reprimanded for Berlin's attempts to restrict the activities of Russian journalists in Germany.
“If they contact Russian correspondents and end the plan, German journalists will leave Russia,” she claimed.