Moscow Charges U.S. Embassy Staffer Had Mortar Shell In His Luggage

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Moscow Charges U.S. Embassy Staffer Had Mortar Shell In His Luggage

Russia's Foreign Ministry has said that "an object similar to an unarmed mortar shell" was confiscated from the baggage of a U.S. Embassy employee at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport on March 9, the Russian state news agency TASS reported.

The report said the object had a detonator but no explosives.

According to the TASS report, the Russian Foreign Ministry considered the incident "a provocation."

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