Russia to expel US diplomats, sanction officials in tit-for-tat measures
16 Apr 2021
"We will respond to this measure in a tit-for-tat manner. We will ask ten US diplomats in Russia to leave the country," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters.
He also said that President Vladimir Putin's top foreign policy aide, Yury Ushakov, had recommended that US envoy John Sullivan leave for Washington to conduct "serious consultations."
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia would publish a list of US officials who will be blacklisted. But he said Moscow was "studying" US President Joe Biden's proposal to hold a summit with Putin.