The US Received an Adequate Response
Today was the last day when US diplomats had access to dachas in the Serebryany Bor and the warehouse in the south of the Capital. Starting tomorrow, access to these facilities will be closed. This is a retaliatory measure which Moscow is forced to implement after the US Senate approved new anti-Russian sanctions.
Until autumn, Americans will have to reduce the number of the employees of their diplomatic missions by 755 people. That is, leave as many as Russia has in the US. Alexei Petrov will tell you what America is losing of its own free will. This is the warehouse in the south of Moscow.
From the outside, there are no flags, no US symbols, except for the barbed wire that makes the significance of this facility clear. At first glance, everything is simple and calm. But time is ticking, and the territory exceeds two thousand square meters. A truck, a van, that is entering the territory of the warehouse.
Red numbers, employees that have just come, it’s obvious that they’re talking about loading some materials that are now in the warehouse. Nobody is allowed below this point. A car is now approaching the premises, where, apparently, the property of the American embassy is kept. The van maneuvers. The staff doesn’t seem to be in a rush. The truck drove up.
Now, several employees, who work in the warehouse, are taking something from the premises where the property of the American embassy is stored. At least two employees, as we see now, are trying to load something into the car. It’s unclear what it is. Apparently, these are some boxes, might be some furniture. In the neighboring dry cleaners, everyone is busy. They know who these premises around the corner belong to. Did you see if they took anything out or not? No, they didn't. They didn’t, right? That is, there was no activity at all? Nothing at all.
But apparently the US diplomatic mission, as early as late spring, began to prepare for the fact that they would have to leave the premises. A warehouse employee answers to the press both for himself and for that American guy. You should have come two months ago, all hell was let loose here. Now it's empty. Say, there were 200 containers. How many trucks did they need? Many. But things are moving. Two more trucks are leaving the territory as the TV cameras watch. A car with red numbers approaches the gate of the warehouse, there is one person inside, in my opinion, one person is driving.
The guards come out, they open the gates. Perhaps, this is the person who will be watching, who is responsible for loading what is now stored in the warehouse. But there seems to be nothing to watch. The car parked near the guard station, and 20 minutes later, it came back. I wonder, will it stop? No comments. Today, it’s also quiet in the Serebryany Bor. At the dacha, where traditionally, since Soviet times, they have spent holidays and celebrations. American diplomats often came here with their families. But many years of this tradition were interrupted by this easy decision of the American Congress.
