MOSCOW – Russia has invited ten American diplomats to leave the country. This is Moscow’s response to the US, which yesterday in turn announced the expulsion of ten Russian diplomats as part of sanctions for alleged Russian interference in the American elections and hacker attacks on various institutions and groups in the United States.
Interference on the vote and cyberattacks, Washington launches new sanctions against Moscow
by our correspondent Federico Rampini
But Moscow did not limit itself to this: in fact it suggested to the American ambassador in Moscow, John Sullivan, to return to Washington for “detailed and serious consultations”. Ten senior officials of the present and past US administrations are included in the black list of people who cannot enter the country: among them the director of the FBI Christopher Wray, the director of the CIA April Haines, the Minister of Justice Merrick Garland and that of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.
A move that raises the stakes in the tug-of-war between the two countries. Moscow continues to evaluate the proposal in a “positive” way Joe Biden to hold a Russian-American summit. “We are studying the various aspects of this initiative”, said the Foreign Minister, Serghei Lavrov, in the press conference in which he announced the countermeasures to the latest American sanctions.
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