Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s team vowed to retaliate against Russia’s expulsion of two United States diplomats as Kremlin hostility to American influence in Russia continues to complicate embassy operations in the country.
“Yet again, Russia has chosen confrontation and escalation over constructive diplomatic engagement,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Thursday. “It continues to harass employees of our embassy just as it continues to intimidate its own citizens.”Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov took aim at two U.S. embassy officials, Jeffrey Sillin and David Bernstein, for “liaising with a Russian citizen” who has been indicted for working for the U.S. consulate in Vladivostok.
It is common for diplomatic missions to hire local staff, but Russian officials ordered the U.S. embassy to fire all local employees in April 2021 and gave U.S. Ambassador Lynne Tracy a “harsh” message during a meeting Thursday while notifying her that Sillin and Bernstein must leave within seven days. Blinken’s team has denounced Russia’s treatment of Shonov as yet another example of Moscow’s crackdown on Russian civil society in recent years.
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