Moscow will expel the same number of American diplomats as Washington and will shut down the US General Consulate in Saint Petersburg, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced. The top diplomat added that Russia will not only provide a mirror response to West’s steps in the wake of Skripal’s poisoning, ...
The Western response to the Salisbury poison attack on ex-Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal is clear, but not unanimous. Austria, alongside some other European countries, has refused to expel Russian diplomats, though Vienna expressed “unqualified solidarity with the UK.” The British ambassador to Austria repeatedly expressed a demarche to Vienna ...
