Russia-Ukraine Struggle: Russia and the USA had been locked in a dispute.
Russian diplomats in Washington are being threatened with violence and U.S. intelligence companies attempt to make contact with them, Tass information company cited the ambassador as saying on Saturday.
Anatoly Antonov advised Russian tv that since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, face-to-face conferences with U.S. officers had ended.
“It is like a besieged fortress. Principally, our embassy is working in a hostile surroundings … Embassy staff are receiving threats, together with threats of bodily violence,” Tass quoted him as saying.
“Brokers from U.S. safety companies are hanging round outdoors the Russian embassy, handing out CIA and FBI cellphone numbers, which will be referred to as to determine contact.”
The CIA, the FBI, the Workplace of the Director of Nationwide Intelligence and the U.S. State Division didn’t instantly return messages searching for remark.
The Russian ambassador to Poland was doused in a pink substance on Monday by individuals protesting towards the conflict.
Russia and the USA had been locked in a dispute over the dimensions and functioning of their respective diplomatic missions lengthy earlier than Russia invaded Ukraine.
Moscow expelled numerous U.S. diplomats in March after Washington mentioned it was kicking out 12 Russian diplomats on the nation’s U.N. mission in New York.
