A representative of the US Department of State has told Sputnik that a mine, found at a Moscow airport in the luggage of a US Embassy in Russia employee, was not dangerous, Sputnik reported.

"We are aware of an incident today at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow involving an individual from the U.S. Embassy‎. The situation has been resolved and the individual was allowed to depart Russia after authorities removed the item from his luggage. There was ‎no danger presented to any traveller", the official said.

On Saturday morning, staff at Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport detected an object similar to a mine during a screening of an embassy employee's luggage. Experts later confirmed that it was indeed a mine with a fuse but without explosives, though "their traces were present inside the mine body".