Russia on Thursday expelled 60
United States of America diplomats and closed the St Petersburg consulate.
This is in response to US action
over a spy poisoning case in the UK.
The Russian Foreign Minister,
Sergei Labrov, made the announcement in Saint Petersburg in a tit-for-tat
expulsion over the poisoning of ex-double agent, Sergei Skripal.
Lavrov said that the US
ambassador had been informed of “retaliatory measures.”
The Minister added that “they
include the expulsion of the equivalent number of diplomats and our decision to
withdraw permission for the functioning of the US consulate general in Saint
Petersburg.”
Washington earlier ordered the
expulsion of 60 diplomats and shut down the Russian consulate general in
Seattle.
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