The United States expelled two Russian officials on June 17 in response to what it described as a Russian policeman’s attack on a US diplomat in Moscow earlier in the month, the State Department said.
“On June 17, we expelled two Russian officials from the United States in response to this attack,” State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters, declining to provide further details about the expulsions.
In his first detailed comments about the June 6 incident, Kirby contradicted the account provided by Russia’s Foreign Ministry, which said the policeman was trying to protect the embassy by checking the man’s documents.
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Source: The Indian Express
