The United States ousted two Russian authorities on June 17 because of what it portrayed as a Russian policeman's assault on a U.S. ambassador in Moscow prior in the month, the State Department said.
"On June 17, we ousted two Russian authorities from the United States in light of this assault," State Department representative John Kirby told correspondents, declining to give further insights about the removals.
In his initially point by point remarks about the June 6 occurrence, Kirby negated the record gave by Russia's Foreign Ministry, which said the policeman was attempting to secure the government office by checking the man's reports.
"On the sixth of June a licensed U.S. representative, who distinguished himself, as per government office conventions entering the American international safe haven compound, was assaulted by a Russian policeman," Kirby told correspondents.
"The activity was unjustifiable and it jeopardized the wellbeing of our worker. The Russian claim the policeman was shielding the government office from a unidentified individual is just untrue," he included.
A Russian Foreign Ministry representative has said the cop had needed to check the man's records to build up he was not a risk to government office security, but rather was elbowed in the face when he attempted to test him. She said the international safe haven worker was a CIA operator working under strategic spread.
Washington, whose dealings with Moscow have been strained by the Syrian common war, Russia's extension of Crimea from Ukraine and U.S. assertions that Moscow has progressively annoyed its representatives, had attempted to manage the issue unobtrusively.
On Thursday, Kirby uncovered that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had raised the occurrence with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on June 7 and said that Washington needed to manage it in private talks between the legislatures.
(Reporting by Arshad Mohammed; Writing by Mohammad Zargham; Editing by Eric Beech and Sandra Maler)
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