About 50 Russian diplomats and their families returned to Russia from New York, United States of America, on Sunday, according to the Russian State News Agency, RIA.
Recall that the US Deputy Representative to the United Nations had issued an ultimatum to 12 Russian UN ambassadors to leave the US by March 7.
The Joe Biden administration had asked for the removal of the Russian diplomats, accusing them of allegedly engaging in “activities that were not in accordance with their responsibilities and obligations as diplomats.”
US Ambassador to the UN, Richard Mills said this during a UN Security Council meeting last Monday.
Then late Sunday, a Russian government plane carrying the diplomats left New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport en route Moscow.
“This plane will return to their homeland [the] Russian diplomats, whom the US Government has declared persona non grata,” said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova on her Telegram channel.