The plane will land in New York on Sunday afternoon, June 20, then Antonov will head to Washington, RIA Novosti reports.

Earlier, the leaders of Russia and the United States Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden at the summit in Geneva agreed to resolve problems in the work of the diplomatic departments of the two countries.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the return of the ambassadors "an important but symbolic gesture."

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, previously said when the Russian Ambassador to the United States, Antonov, would return to Washington.

According to her, he will spend the next working week directly in the United States.