WASHINGTON: The United States has expelled two Russian embassy officials after Russia earlier expelled two US diplomats from the American embassy in Moscow, the US State Department said on Friday (Oct
"In response to the Russian Federation's specious expulsion of two US Embassy Moscow diplomats, the State Department reciprocated by declaring persona non grata two Russian Embassy officials operating in the United States," a State Department spokesman said.
Russia's RIA news agency quoted an unnamed source in the Russian foreign ministry as confirming the expulsion, calling t groundless and saying Washington had used Moscow's Sep 14 expulsion of two US diplomats"caught red-handed engaging in spying activities" as a pretext. Russia said on Sept. 14 that it was expelling two US diplomats whom it accused of working with a Russian national charged with collaborating with a foreign state.
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