Russia expels two US embassy staff for 'illegal activity'


A view shows the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Russia February 13, 2023. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/File photo

LONDON (Reuters) -Russia said on Thursday it was expelling two U.S. diplomats whom it accused of working with a Russian national charged with collaborating with a foreign state.

The Foreign Ministry said in a statement it had summoned U.S. envoy Lynne Tracy and told her that embassy First Secretary Jeffrey Sillin and Second Secretary David Bernstein must leave Russia within seven days.

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