The US State Department said the country 8-7 days has expelled two Russian diplomats in response to an altercation between Moscow police and US diplomats in Russia.
US expulsion of two Russian diplomats
Washington expelled two Russian diplomats after scuffle of American diplomats with Moscow police - AFP
Foreign Ministry spokesman John Kirby said the US American side asked two Russian diplomats to leave the US on 17-6.
Mr. Kirby said last month, a Russian police have attacked an American diplomat close to the US Embassy in Moscow.
"On 17-6, we have expelled two Russian officials from the United States to react to this attack," - Mr. Kirby said.
"It was a gratuitous act which endangers the safety of our employees. Statement by Russia on police protecting the embassy from an unknown individual identity is not true" - he Kirby accused.
Meanwhile, the Russian side said US diplomats working for the CIA and refused to provide proof of identity card and police punched in the face.
"Instead of being a CIA agent disguised, as far as we understand, it also could be a terrorist, a name or an extremist suicide bombers" - a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said.
Russian media has also released a videotape of clashes between US diplomats and Russian police.
In recent months, the US and Russia have accused each other because of the harassment or disruptive to the diplomats of the two countries are working in the enemy country.
Americans for that matter on starting two years ago when the US and the EU to impose sanctions on Russia after Moscow annexed the Crimea, as well as the military intervention of the country in Ukraine.

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