"Forty-five embassy staff members have departed; together with their family members, it’s about 70 people. Everything went normally," the statement reads
Chisinau’s official decision to reduce Russian diplomats and technical personnel en masse in our overseas offices in Moldova can only be seen as another unfriendly step aimed at the systematic destruction of Russian-Moldovan relations
According to Vladimir Zharikhin, the Moldovan authorities "are ready to show something to be praised in the main center of the country s guidance - the US embassy"