China News Service, March 24. According to the Associated Press, on the 23rd local time, the US State Department confirmed that Russia will expel several diplomats from the US embassy in Moscow.

  The U.S. State Department said it had received a list of diplomats deemed persona non grata by Russia for deportation.

But the statement did not specify the number of U.S. diplomats to be deported.

  The U.S. State Department called the move "futile" in the relationship between the two countries and urged Russia to "end the unjustifiable expulsion of U.S. diplomats and staff."

  Earlier, on the 21st local time, the Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the US ambassador to Russia Sullivan to protest Biden's remarks against Putin and warned that Russia and the United States were on the verge of breaking diplomatic relations.

On the 23rd, Russia summoned a senior diplomat of the U.S. diplomatic corps in Russia and submitted to him a note containing a list of expelled U.S. diplomats who were listed by Russia as "persona non grata". In response to the U.S. expulsion of a diplomat from the Permanent Mission of Russia to the United Nations and a Russian staff member of the United Nations Secretariat.