Britain’s closest allies, led by the US, will expel more than 100 Russian officials from their capitals in a co-ordinated diplomatic offensive aimed at isolating the Kremlin for its alleged role in the poisoning of a former spy on UK soil.
Donald Trump — who was slow to link the nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal to Moscow and has been criticised for attempting to improve ties to the Kremlin — accounted for the majority of the expulsions. He gave 60 Russians in Moscow’s Washington embassy and UN mission one week to leave the country.
US officials said they were intelligence officers using diplomatic cover.
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