The Russian Foreign Ministry ordered the 23 diplomats to leave within a week. MOSCOW—Russia on Saturday announced it is expelling 23 British diplomats and threatened further retaliatory measures in a growing diplomatic dispute over a nerve agent attack on a former spy in Britain. The announcement followed Britain’s order this week for 23 Russian diplomats to leave the U.K. because Russia was not co-operating in the case of the Skripals, who were found March 4 poisoned by a nerve agent that British officials say was developed in Russia. In a tweet Saturday, Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom rejected a Russian suggestion that the nerve agent came from her country. “Forcefully reject unacceptable and unfounded allegation by Russian MFA spokesperson that nerve agent used in Salisbury might originate in Sweden.

Source: thestar March 17, 2018 13:45 UTC