“We welcome the way Germany reacted to the decision of the Berlin court, which convicted the person for committing a crime on the territory of the country,” Price wrote on his Twitter.
We welcome Germany's response to the Berlin court's decision to convict an individual for committing murder on its territory, which the court concluded was done on behalf of the Russian state.
- Ned Price (@StateDeptSpox) December 16, 2021
According to him, the court decided that this was done on behalf of the Russian state.
Earlier, the Supreme Court of Berlin sentenced Russian Vadim Sokolov to life imprisonment in the case of the murder of Georgian citizen Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in the German capital in 2019.
After that, the Russian ambassador to Germany, Sergei Nechaev, was summoned to the German Foreign Ministry.
He said that two employees of the Russian Embassy in Germany are being declared persona non grata.