MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday said that the U.S. arrests of suspects in an alleged Russian spy ring would not have a negative impact on Russian-U.S. relations, Interfax news agency reported.

"We expect that the incident involving the arrest in the United States of a group of people suspected of spying for Russia will not negatively affect Russian-U.S. relations," the news agency quoted an unnamed official as saying.

(Writing by Conor Humphries; Editing by Dmitry Zhdannikov)