MOSCOW - Russia has demanded that the US embassy in Moscow stop spreading what Moscow regards as fake news regarding its military operation in Ukraine and has threatened to expel US diplomats, the Tass news agency reported on Tuesday (Feb 7). The warning included a harsh message to Ms Lynne Tracy, the new US ambassador to Moscow, Tass said, citing...
US ambassador Lynne Tracy was heckled by a crowd of people chanting anti-US slogans when she visited the Russian foreign ministry to present her diplomatic credentials.MOSCOW - Russia has demanded that the US embassy in Moscow stop spreading what Moscow regards as fake news regarding its military operation in Ukraine and has threatened to expel US diplomats, the Tass news agency reported on Tuesday .
US diplomats engaged in what Moscow called “subversive activities” would be expelled, Tass quoted the source as saying. Russia has made “discrediting” its armed forces a crime punishable by up to five years in jail, while a charge of knowingly distributing “false information” about the military carries a maximum sentence of 15 years.
Ukraine and its Western allies accuse Mr Putin of launching an unprovoked colonial-style war of aggression and reject his assertion that the operation is designed to protect Russia’s own security from Nato’s eastern enlargement.Tass said the official note, which accused the US embassy of interfering in Russia’s internal affairs, had been delivered on Tuesday and had accused US diplomats of making what it called “inappropriate” statements about the Russian leadership.
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