The Russian side did not find confirmation of the US Embassy’s warning about possible terrorist attacks in Russia. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a press conference following a meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad.
“So far, we have not received or found any confirmation of this,” Lavrov said.
Earlier, the US Embassy in Moscow reported on the risks of attacks in shopping malls, railway and metro stations, and other public places both in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and in areas of high tension along the Russian border with Ukraine. As a source of such information, the American diplomatic mission indicated media reports.
Later, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin is investigating whether information was received from the United States through the special services about possible terrorist attacks in Moscow and St. Petersburg. “This is a very, very unusual practice – such publications by diplomatic missions. And now we are just sorting out whether there were any signals from the Americans through the special services, but I don’t know at the moment that there were such,” the Kremlin spokesman said.
In turn, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, in response to the embassy’s statement, asked whether the American diplomats had transmitted “the relevant data to Russian colleagues through partner channels.” “If not, how is this to be understood?” she wrote on Telegram.