“Expelling diplomats is a kind of a standard response,” said Natasha Kuhrt, a Russia expert at King’s College London. Some Russia experts said the measures announced by May were unlikely to make Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government change its behaviour. Some in Russia have suggested that the nerve agent could have come from another former Soviet country. British police say a Russian ex-spy and his daughter, who are now for their lives in an English hospital, were attacked with a nerve agent in a targeted murder attempt. May said Russia’s use of a chemical weapon was “an affront to the prohibition on the use of chemical weapons.

Source: thestar March 14, 2018 12:04 UTC