"On April 21, the Deputy Head of the US diplomatic mission in Russia, B. Gorman, was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, who was handed a note announcing the announcement of" persona non grata "by 10 employees of the US Embassy in Moscow," the Russian ministry said in a commentary.

Moscow stressed that this step is a mirror response to the "hostile actions" of the American side against the staff of the Russian Embassy in Washington and the Russian Consulate General in New York.

Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry published a list of responses to US sanctions.