Pajno - and general hello

In response to the expulsion of two employees of the Russian Embassy from the United States, two American diplomats were announced in Moscow, Non Grata. This was stated by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Ryabkov, the press service of the Foreign Ministry reports .

On Friday, the official representative of the State Department, John Kirby, said that from the United States , two Russian officials were sent from the country after an incident with an attack by a police officer on an American diplomat near the embassy in Moscow.

“I can confirm that with reference to the above case of the United States, the authorities really demanded that two employees of the Russian Embassy in Washington, without presenting any complaints about them. Moreover, in the State Department at a high level, we were invited not to betray this fact. As we see, to keep the word not in the customs of American diplomats,” Ryabkov said.

“Following their unfriendly step from Moscow, two US Embassy employees had to leave. They were declared“ Person of Non Grat ”for activities incompatible with diplomatic status. This is the same night bully and another CIA operative,” the deputy minister 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.