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14 EU countries expel Russian diplomats

Response to a nerve agent attack in Salibsury, England

Newsroom March 26 06:46

Fourteen EU countries joined with the United States and other allies to expel Russian diplomats on Monday in response to a nerve agent attack in Salibsury, England.

European Council President Donald Tusk announced the coordinated expulsions at a meeting of EU leaders in Varna, Bulgaria. At the same time, Tusk expressed condolences for a shopping center fire in Siberia that killed more than 50 people, including many children.

In announcing the expulsions, Tusk reiterated the European Council’s conclusions from a summit meeting last week that declared it “highly likely” Russia was responsible for the attempted assassination of a former double agent, Sergei Skripal, and that “there is no plausible alternative explanation” to Russia’s culpability.

Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, remain hospitalized.

“As a direct follow-up to last week’s European Council decision to react to Russia within a common framework,” Tusk said, “fourteen member states have decided to expel Russian diplomats.”

“Additional measures including further expulsions … are not to be excluded in the coming days and weeks,” Tusk said.

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In the United States, the White House announced the expulsion of dozens of Russian diplomats and ordered the closure of the Russian Consulate in Seattle, citing the close proximity of a submarine base and the Boeing manufacturing plant.

Ukraine also announced it was expelling 13 Russian diplomats.

source: politico.eu

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