U.S. Embassy in Russia Hides Address as Trolling War with Moscow Escalates
The U.S. embassy in Moscow is using coordinates instead of an address on its website after Russian authorities renamed the square outside the building after one of the two separatist regions of Ukraine that Russia recognizes as sovereign.
The embassy has been contacted for comment.
Moscow's residents voted in June to rename the square outside the city's U.S. embassy "Donetsk People's Republic Square," according to The Moscow Times.
According to the newspaper, the city is also set to rename a square closet to the German embassy "Luhansk People's Republic Square."
That came after protesters put up a sign outside the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C., unofficially renaming the street after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
"The President Zelensky Way street sign is just our way of peacefully protesting [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's atrocities and honoring Ukraine," activist Claude Taylor told The Hill in March.
Luhansk and neighboring Donetsk are two provinces that make up the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, and pro-Russia separatists had held portions of both since 2014.