What will be outcome of mass expulsion of Russian diplomats from Germany?

Russia is responding in kind to mass expulsion of its diplomats from Berlin, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.

"The German authorities took a decision on another mass expulsion of employees of Russian diplomatic missions in Germany. We strongly condemn these actions of Berlin, which continues to defiantly destroy the entire array of Russian-German relations," the ministry said.

Moscow's response

"As a reaction to the hostile actions of Berlin, the Russian side decided to mirror the expulsion of German diplomats from Russia, as well as to significantly limit the maximum number of employees of German diplomatic missions in our country," the ministry said.

The ministry did not reveal the number of diplomats involved.

It said Germany's ambassador in Moscow Geza Andreas von Geyr had earlier been invited to the ministry and officially informed about the developments on April 5.