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US plans to close last 2 consulates in Russia, report says

by French Press Agency - AFP

WASHINGTON Dec 19, 2020 - 11:29 am GMT+3
Consulate employees remove the U.S flag at the U.S. consulate in St. Petersburg, Russia, March 31, 2018. (AP Photo)
Consulate employees remove the U.S flag at the U.S. consulate in St. Petersburg, Russia, March 31, 2018. (AP Photo)
by French Press Agency - AFP Dec 19, 2020 11:29 am
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U.S. President Donald Trump's outgoing administration is planning to close the two remaining U.S. consulates in Russia, media reports said Friday, as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office amid high tensions with Moscow.

The U.S. will close its consulate in the far eastern city of Vladivostok and suspend operations at its post in Yekaterinburg, CNN said, citing a Dec. 10 letter sent to Congress from the State Department.

The move comes in "response to ongoing staffing challenges for the U.S. Mission in Russia in the wake of the 2017 Russian-imposed personnel cap on the U.S. Mission and the resultant impasse with Russia over diplomatic visas," the report said, citing the letter.

Ten diplomats assigned to the consulates will reportedly be relocated to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, while 33 local staff will lose their jobs.

"No action related to the Russian consulates in the United States is planned," CNN cited the letter as saying.

The closures would leave the embassy in Moscow as the U.S.' last diplomatic mission in Russia.

In March 2018 Moscow ordered the closure of the U.S. Consulate in St. Petersburg amid a diplomatic spat sparked by the poisoning of Sergei Skripal on U.K. soil.

It was unclear whether the closures would happen before Jan. 20, when President-elect Biden takes office.

On Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Russia was "pretty clearly" behind a devastating cyberattack on several U.S. government agencies that security experts say could allow attackers unfettered access to critical IT systems and electric power grids.

Yohannes Abraham, executive director for the Biden transition team, said the hack was of "great concern" and that under the new administration cyberattacks would meet a response inflicting "substantial cost."

Russia has denied any involvement in the cyberattacks.

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