Moscow sends the American ambassador and expels ten American diplomats.
As is known, the United States imposed sanctions on Russia and expelled ten Russian diplomats. After that, three employees of the Russian embassy in Warsaw were also classified as unwanted in Poland.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke in this regard: The advisor to the Russian president, Yuri Usakov, suggested to the US ambassador John Sullivan when he asked his office on Friday to return to Washington for consultations like his Russian counterpart. Kommersant wrote that this was an actual expulsion. However, the comment noted that, unlike the declaration of persona non grata (this happened to US Ambassador George Kennan to the Soviet Union in 1952), this is a milder move by which the receiving party indicates that the head of mission may return to his post at a later time. However, the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations does not recognize it Sending the ambassador for diplomatic advice“Concept.
Cool relationship
Lavrov announced that Russia will prohibit the use of Russian and third-country citizens by US embassies on its territory. In addition, Moscow will, on the basis of reciprocity, limit the number of personnel that can be accredited to US missions on short missions to 10 per year.
