Earlier, the US expelled 12 members of the Russian diplomatic mission to the UN.
Moscow:
Russia said on Wednesday it was sending US diplomats out of the country in retaliation for Washington’s decision to remove 12 Moscow representatives from the UN in New York.
“On March 23, a note listing the US diplomats who had been declared ‘persona non grata’ was handed over to the head of the US diplomatic mission, who was subpoenaed at the State Department,” the ministry said in a statement. .
The decision was made in response to Washington’s expulsion of Russian diplomats at the UN in New York, the source said.
“It has been made clear from the American side that any hostile action by the United States against Russia will be met with a resolute and appropriate response,” the statement added.
The United States expelled 12 members of Russia’s diplomatic mission to the UN in early March amid an open crisis with Russia over Ukraine on charges of “espionage”.
“The US has informed the Russian mission that we are beginning to expel 12 intelligence agents from the Russian mission who have abused their residency rights in the US by engaging in espionage activities that are harmful to our national security,” said a spokeswoman for That Report. the US mission to the UN, Olivia Dalton, in a statement.
Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoli Antonov denounced it as a “hostile move” by the United States and stressed that the actions were a cause of “deep disappointment and absolute rejection” in Moscow.
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