Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov called the possibility of the expulsion of Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov from the United States a serious threat.

Earlier, Antonov himself said that the State Department raised the question of his departure from the United States if Russia does not issue visas to the guards of the head of the American diplomatic mission in Moscow. Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev stressed that “man-made and absolutely unlawful” chaos continues in relations between Moscow and Washington on the issue of the work of diplomatic missions.
Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov called the possibility of the expulsion of Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov from the United States a serious threat.
“The threat is serious,” said a Kremlin spokesman, answering a journalist’s question.
Relations between Russia and the United States remain difficult amid a lack of progress in dialogue on Moscow’s proposed security guarantees, which were sent to Washington in mid-December. The day before, US Ambassador to Moscow John Sullivan handed over to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko Washington’s written response to the Russian project. As Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov emphasized, Russia has not received an answer from the United States to its main question regarding NATO’s refusal to expand to the east.