{"id":42897,"date":"2022-03-01T12:07:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T12:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/?p=42897"},"modified":"2022-03-01T12:07:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T12:07:37","slug":"us-is-expelling-12-russian-un-diplomats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/us-is-expelling-12-russian-un-diplomats\/","title":{"rendered":"US is expelling 12 Russian UN diplomats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United States has asked 12 Russian United Nations diplomats to leave the US, accusing them of &#8220;espionage activities,&#8221; as Russia continues its attack on Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Russian diplomats were asked to leave due to their alleged engagement in &#8220;activities that were not in accordance with their responsibilities and obligations as diplomats,&#8221; Ambassador Richard Mills, deputy representative of the United States to the United Nations, said during a UN Security Council meeting Monday afternoon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russian Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia responded by saying Mills&#8217; explanation of the expulsions was &#8220;not satisfactory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The diplomatic expulsions were announced less than a week after Russia began its attack on Ukraine, though the US said that the move had been in the works for several months. Last week, the US expelled the second-most senior diplomat at the Russian embassy in response to Moscow&#8217;s expulsion of the second-ranking US diplomat in Moscow earlier in the year. The State Department announced the expulsion in the hours after Moscow began its bombardment and invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The US Mission to the UN also said in a statement that the 12 Russian diplomats were &#8220;intelligence operatives&#8230;who have abused their privileges of residency in the US by engaging in espionage activities that are adverse to our national security.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has asked 12 Russian United Nations diplomats to leave the US, accusing them of &#8220;espionage activities,&#8221; as Russia continues its attack on Ukraine. The Russian diplomats were asked to leave due to their alleged engagement in &#8220;activities that were not in accordance with their responsibilities and obligations as diplomats,&#8221; Ambassador Richard Mills, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":42898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,307,306,296],"tags":[703,378],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42899,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42897\/revisions\/42899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}