This was stated by the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov in an interview with the TV channel "Russia 24".

“This causes our deep concern.

And in this case, here one can only call on our citizens to be especially careful against the background of such unpredictable actions of the American side, "TASS quoted Peskov as saying.

He called this US practice illegal and vicious.

Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry called the US practice of "catching" Russian citizens abroad contagious.