Representatives of the United States illegally entered the building of the General Consulate of Russia in Seattle and switched on the light there. It remains to be seen why the American colleagues took such an unfriendly step.

The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova, making comments on an event named actions of Americans by raider capture. "A rare sight is a state raider capture," the diplomat wrote on her Facebook page. The White House demanded to close the consulate general in Seattle on April 2, while simultaneously announcing the expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats on suspicion of espionage. These measures were taken in response to Moscow's alleged involvement in the poisoning of former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia in the UK.