Recent decisions by the US and its allies across Europe to ban dozens of Russian embassy staff from their capitals come as part of a concerted campaign to isolate the country, one of Moscow’s most senior diplomats has told RT.
Taking questions from reporters on Thursday, Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative at the United Nations, said that he was concerned about worsening diplomatic relations with Western states, but that Moscow was ready to respond to escalations in kind.
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