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Earlier, the Moldovan Foreign Ministry notified the Russian ambassador of the need to reduce the embassy’s staff to 10 diplomats and 15 technical employees
"This unfriendly step of official Chisinau first of all it will affect the residents of both countries, whose opportunities to receive timely consular assistance, as well as to maintain business and cultural ties will be significantly reduced," the ministry said in a statement
"Forty-five embassy staff members have departed; together with their family members, it’s about 70 people. Everything went normally," the statement reads
"We will continue participating in the Joint Control Commission for managing the peacekeeping operation on the Dniester," Russian Ambassador to Moldova Oleg Vasnetsov said
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