The embassy wrote on Facebook: "A hundred years ago, in 1918, a force was taken down from the US Army in Vladivostok, the far east of Russia, and thus began bloody American intervention in Russia, then wounded by the civil war and the events of the revolution. More than 200 US soldiers have been killed in the street war and have been turned back, we will not forget this incident and we will always remember it."

On August 5, 1918, the US State Department unilaterally declared the severance of diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia. Ten days later, a US military force landed in Vladivostok.
 The reason for the intervention was the Soviet government's decision to conclude peace with Germany and Russia's withdrawal from the First World War.

After the end of the unrest in Russia and the Soviet Union's destruction of the empire in 1922, all foreign troops withdrew from Russia and were preceded by US forces in 1920 after the fall of the separatist government of Kolchak.