“Three diplomats have been declared persona non grata. They left the country with their families, ”RIA Novosti quotes the press secretary of the Russian embassy in Bratislava Vladislav Kulikov.

Earlier, the Slovak newspaper Denník N reported that the Slovak authorities were expelling several Russian diplomats.

According to the official representative of the Slovak diplomacy Juraj Tomag, "a decision has been made to expel three employees of the Russian Embassy."

It was noted that the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs would mirror the response to the expulsion of Russian diplomats from Slovakia.