“On August 5, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria to the Russian Federation A. Krystin was invited to the Russian Foreign Ministry, where he was presented with a note from the ministry declaring 14 employees of the diplomatic mission and consular offices of Bulgaria in Russia as persona non grata and unacceptable,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Russia.
At the end of June, Bulgaria announced that it was expelling 70 Russian diplomats and technical staff of the Russian embassy.
Later, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced the impossibility of the normal operation of the Russian embassy in Bulgaria after the expulsion of diplomats from Bulgaria.