The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation reported on the activation of provocative actions against Russian diplomats in the United States. This is stated in the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, published on the website on Friday, March 30. "In recent days - after the announcement of the groundless expulsion from this country (USA) of 60 employees of Russian diplomatic institutions - American intelligence agencies are making feverish attempts to come into contact with them. There was a whole series of outrageous episodes when those who Washington forces to finish the business ahead of schedule tried to offer "help" - and not just for that, but for secret relations "on a mutually beneficial basis," the foreign ministry said.. Russians are directly attacking such proposals, marking on Smolenskaya Square. The Foreign Ministry suggested that in Washington they try to play the following combination: "official authorities groundlessly expel Russian diplomats, and the increasingly aggressive American intelligence services immediately try to take advantage of this difficult moment for our people". "None of the obvious plans they do not go, but it looks like this behavior is cynical and disgusting, as if in Washington they completely ceased to realize the framework of elementary decency," the ministry believes.

They stressed that all such cases are carefully recorded and the findings will follow.

This week, US President Donald Trump's administration in support of London, assuring that the poisoning in Salisbury on March 4 of two Russians - ex-scout GRU Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia - the work of Moscow, decided to send 60 Russian diplomats from the country and close the consulate general RF in Seattle. Russia responded to this on the eve of closing the US Consulate General in St. Petersburg and sent the same number of American diplomats.