Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy Bart Gorman was handed a note on Wednesday declaring 10 employees of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow persona non grata, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
"Bart Gorman, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy to the Russian Federation, was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on April 21 to be handed a note declaring persona non grata 10 employees of the U.S. embassy in Moscow. Those individuals are ordered to leave our country by the end of May 21," TASS cited the Foreign Ministry as saying.
"This measure is a mirror response to the U.S. hostile actions against a number of employees of the Russian Embassy in Washington and the Russian Consulate General in New York, who were groundlessly declared persona non grata," the statement says.
