The US is continuing to systematically damage bilateral relations, which are already at their lowest ebb. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said this in a statement on Wednesday, TASS reported.

“Washington has distinguished itself in taking yet another hostile move against our country, by not granting permission for a special flight of Russian state aircraft to the United States, which was supposed to carry home employees of Russian foreign institutions and their families,” the statement continues.

"The Joe Biden administration has preferred to totally ignore the fact that it is actually a humanitarian action as our plane was supposed to fly in to take those of our colleagues whom the Department of State had earlier issued an ultimatum, ordering them to leave the United States by the end of this month," Zakharova added.

The Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman pointed out that such defiant behavior of the US authorities would not "go unanswered."

"As we have warned before, once a Russian special flight is denied entry, countermeasures, including asymmetrical ones, will inevitably follow,” Zakharova added.