Excessive misfortune

The United States sent two Russian officials from the country after an attack on an American diplomat in Moscow. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the official representative of the US State Department John Kirby.

"On June 17, we sent two Russian diplomats in response to this attack," Kirby said. He refused to provide more detailed information about the expelled citizens of Russia.

The Russian embassy in Washington refused to compile a statement of Kirby. "At the moment, the embassy is refraining from comments," the press service of the embassy said

The incident in Moscow occurred on June 6. However, only on June 29, The Washington Post, citing four unnamed American officials, reported that the US Embassy Secretary in Moscow brutally beat the American diplomat . The attacker grabbed and held the American, but in the end he managed to escape and get into the building. The diplomat received a number of injuries, including a fracture of the shoulder bone. He was sent for treatment outside Russia, where he is still.

On June 30, the official representative of the Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova accused the publication of the inaccuracy of the published information. “In reality, it was like this. On the night of June 6, a taxi drove up to the US Ambassador Complex in Moscow, from which an unknown man jumped into a low cap of a hat on his face and rushed to the passing one. The Russian policeman on duty there to verify the documents of a suspicious person to make sure there was no threat to a diplomatic representation, but he, instead of presenting a certificate, hit the shift in his face in his face. The stranger pushed the security officer and disappeared into the embassy that arose, ”Zakharova said.

“It is known that this diplomat is actually an employee of the CIA. That night, in disguise, returned after a reconnaissance operation. And either he was very nervous because of this, or simply wanted to slip unrecognized, and therefore did not show his diplomatic card, and when he was stopped, he dismissed his hands,” said the representative of the Foreign Ministry.

To this, Kirby said that the diplomat introduced himself in accordance with the rules of admission to the embassy. "The action was not provoked by anything and threatened the security of our employee. Russia's approval that the police officer defended the embassy from the unidentified person simply did not correspond to reality," the representative of the State Department said.

On Thursday, The Washington Post announced with reference to two anonymous sources that the diplomat who became a participant in the incident on the night of June 6 was indeed an employee of the American intelligence services . "The American diplomat really worked under the cover of the US intelligence community and tried to hide in the embassy to avoid the detention of Russian security services that pursued him," the publication says.

The US State Department officially has not yet confirmed this information. The investigation of the incident is controlled by the US Congress.