The Russian Foreign Ministry, called the deputy US ambassador to Russia, Bart Gorban, to announce him that Moscow is about to deport 10 US diplomats from the US embassy in Moscow.
According to a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry the us diplomats are due to leave Russia by May 21. The Russian Foreign Ministry says the move is in response to US hostility to a number of Russian embassy officials in Washington and Russia’s consul general in New York, whom they have declared unfounded.
The Russian Foreign Ministry assures in its announcement that Russia will soon take further initiatives in response to US sanctions against Russia. At the same time, he recalls that the set of response measures in the latest wave of “illegal US anti-Russian sanctions” was announced by the State Department on April 16.