Russia’s Foreign Ministry said the three U.S. diplomats who were caught near the restricted zone of a recent deadly nuclear explosion had declared a different destination for their trip prior to travel.
The American foreign service personnel requested permission from the Defense Ministry to travel to the northern city of Arkhangelsk, but “instead, they arrived in a rented car with Russian license plates in Severodvinsk,” a city that foreigners need special permission to enter, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, told reporters Oct. 17.
