The US expelled two Russian diplomats, weeks after Moscow ordered two Americans to go away, the most recent tit-for-tat expulsions as relations proceed to worsen between the 2 nations.

The transfer got here after Russia ousted the 2 US diplomats for contacts with a former consular worker who had been accused of accumulating delicate data. The US has referred to as these allegations baseless.

“The Department will not tolerate the Russian government’s pattern of harassment of our diplomats,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller mentioned in a press release.

The unidentified Russian diplomats got seven days to depart the US. That was the identical period of time given to US diplomats Jeffrey Sillin and David Bernstein, who had been ordered to go away Russia final month.

Russia Expels Two US Diplomats in Feud Over Ex-Employee

Sillin and Bernstein had been accused of contacts with a former worker of the US consulate in Vladivostok who later pleaded responsible to gathering confidential data.

Russia and the US have engaged in a sequence of reciprocal expulsions courting to effectively earlier than Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

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