He told this to reporters.

"I think that before the end of the month, it is absolutely certain that Anatoly Ivanovich will return to Washington," TASS quoted him as saying.

Earlier, Russian and American leaders Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, during negotiations in Geneva, agreed on the return of the American and Russian ambassadors to the diplomatic missions in Moscow and Washington.

On March 21, the Russian ambassador arrived from the United States in the Russian capital.

He stated that a great deal of work would be done in Moscow to analyze Russian-American relations.