In the Russian Foreign Ministry called the consequence of US policies due to the “deterrence” of Moscow, stating that this will lead to the degradation of bilateral relations. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
there noted that Washington probably does not want to put up with the fact that there is no place in the new geopolitical realities. “The US continues to shortly make a bet, are fraught with only further degradation of Russian-American relations,” said Foreign Ministry.
US President Joe Biden on April 15 signed a decree on the introduction of new sanctions against Russia. Restrictions touched individuals and legal entities. Among the grounds for their introduction, allegedly hostile activity of Russia in the cybersfer, interference in the elections in the United States or other foreign states.
The next day, April 16, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia published a list of response against the United States. Moscow will refuse 10 American diplomats, take measures to end the hiring of citizens of Russia and third countries to the Embassy or the US Consulate Protection and to ban American diplomats of the trip beyond the locations of their basing.