Konrad Krajewski, the Polish ambassador in Moscow, was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday to whom a strong protest was made against the groundless declaration on 23 March.

The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Polish Ambassador to protest against the groundless declaration of 45 employees of Russian diplomatic missions in the Republic of Poland as "persona pop grata", the statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry reads.

"The ambassador was told that we consider such a step as a confirmation of Warsaw's conscious desire to destroy bilateral relations once and for all. The responsibility for this lies entirely on the Polish side.

As a response to Poland's unfriendly actions regarding the expulsion of Russian diplomats, 45 staff members of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland and the Consulates General of the Republic of Poland in Irkutsk, Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg are declared persona non grata. They are to leave the territory of Russia on 13 April."