Russia’s Foreign Ministry has denied the allegations in a statement issued Friday stating “Similar, baseless allegations concerning Russia’s foreign policy have been made more than once.
A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said no decision had yet been taken to expel US diplomats from Russia.
Rejecting media reports that a US diplomat had been expelled from Russia, a Russian foreign ministry spokesman said Wednesday night that Russia was still considering response measures at this stage.
“Russia is still “It is a matter of reacting.”
“We are still considering response measures at this stage,” Zakharova told reporters.
The media has previously reported that in response to US actions, Russia has decided to expel US Ambassador Sullivan.
As tensions with Russia continue, the US government on Monday named a number of Russian diplomats at the United Nations in New York as an “undesirable element.” The United States has called 12 employees of the Russian mission to the United Nations an undesirable element and urged them to leave the United States by March 7 (Monday, March 7). Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, called the move a “gross violation” of the UN Charter.
Following the decision of Russian President Vladimir Putin in response to a request for military assistance from the leaders of the separatist region of eastern Ukraine (Luhansk and Donetsk) and a special operation in the West Denbas region led by the United States is trying to help Ukraine regardless of Russia’s demands Who had repeatedly called for negotiations to turn the region into a NATO military stronghold.
Meanwhile, the United States and its allies have exerted comprehensive economic, military and diplomatic pressure on Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who chaired a cabinet meeting Monday to oppose Western sanctions, called the West an “empire of lies.”
