The US government approves the expulsion of two Russian diplomats from Germany after the charges in the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili. State Department spokesman Ned Price announced this on Twitter..

“We welcome Germany’s response to the Berlin court’s decision to convict a person for murder on its territory, which, according to the court’s conclusion, was committed on behalf of the Russian state,” Price wrote..

We welcome Germany's response to the Berlin? court's decision to convict an individual for committing? murder on its territory, which the court concluded was done on behalf of the Russian state.

- Ned Price (@StateDeptSpox) December 16, 2021.

We are talking about the verdict of the Supreme Land Court of Berlin to life imprisonment for the murderer of a Georgian citizen of Chechen origin Zelimkhan Khangoshvili. Russian Vadim Krasikova (Sokolova).

Krasikov was detained on the day of Khangoshvili's murder, he introduced himself as a tourist Vadim Sokolov. However, the German prosecutor's office provided numerous evidence that Krasikov and Sokolov are one person..

Soon after the verdict was announced, German Foreign Minister Annelena Berbock called the murder a serious violation of the country's laws and noted that the incident seemed negatively on relations between Russia and Germany.. She said that the Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador, who was informed about the announcement of the two Russian diplomats persona non grata.. This step was supported by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

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The German High Land Court ruled that the Russian Federation was the customer of the 2019 murder of Georgian citizen Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin in 2019.. This was stated by Judge Olaf Arnoldi.