MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Kremlin on Tuesday dismissed accusations that Russia was creating obstacles for US diplomats trying to retrieve their property from Moscow's Serebryany Bor compound as all the complications were connected to the certain rules for trucks entering the territory.
"It's better to ask the Foreign Ministry, but there is a story about trucks. Take a truck, a Gazelle, and try to enter Serebryany Bor, they will not let you in. Therefore it has nothing to do with this story itself, because there are certain rules, indeed, for the entry of large-sized transport to Serebryany Bor, so here, in this case, we can not agree with such accusations," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
Earlier in the day, a Sputnik correspondent reported that the last vehicle with the diplomatic license plate left the compound.
Six days after the House approved an anti-Russian sanctions package on July 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Sunday that the diplomatic presence of the United States in Russia would be cut by 755 people to 455, the same number of diplomatic personnel that Russia currently has in the US.
On Monday, Vice President Mike Pence said Trump will soon sign into law the new legislation that enhances US sanctions against Russia. It passed by overwhelming majorities of 419 to 3 in the House of Representatives and by 98 to two in the Senate.
