US President Donald Trump is preparing the expulsion of dozens of Russian diplomats in response to the attack on former Russian double-spy Sergei Skripal in Britain. That is what two sources around the White House have said.
Sergej Skripal, the ex-doublespion from Russia, who had been poisoned in southern England, would have asked Russian President Putin forgiveness for his betrayal in a letter. This is what a former school friend of Skripal, Vladimir Tomoshkov, told the BBC.
France and Germany will announce in the coming days 'coordinated and balanced' measures in response to the Russian attack with nerve gas on a former double spy in Salisbury, England. The French President Emmanuel Macron announced this at a joint press conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel after an EU summit in Brussels.
British diplomats expelled by Moscow are Friday to leave Russia. Eyewitnesses reported that vehicles were being prepared at the British embassy in the Russian capital and people said goodbye to each other.
The European Union is calling its ambassador back from Moscow for consultation. The measure follows the establishment of EU heads of government on Thursday evening that Russia is most likely behind the attack with nerve gas in Salisbury on former double-spy Sergei Skripal. According to them, that is the only plausible explanation.
The heads of government of the EU countries agree that Russia is most likely behind the nerve gas attack in Salisbury on former double-spy Sergei Skripal. According to them, there is no other plausible explanation for this, after 28 years of discussion on Russia, the 28 proposed a summit in Brussels.
A British policeman, who was one of the first to assist after the poisoning of a former Russian double agent, was discharged from the hospital on Thursday after a treatment of more than two weeks.
British Prime Minister Theresa May, Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron are discussing the attack with nerve gas in Salisbury, England on a Russian old double-spy. The 28 EU leaders will condemn the attack on their EU summit 'in the strongest possible terms' but stifle how hard Russia should be blamed.
British Prime Minister Theresa May asks European leaders to also expel Russian diplomats 'to dismantle the Kremlin network in Europe.' The British newspaper The Guardian reported Thursday that May at the European summit on Thursday and Friday warns that the Russian President Vladimir Putin poses a threat that can last for years. London has expelled 23 Russian diplomats.
The 28 EU leaders meet on Thursday and Friday in Brussels. Important topics for discussion are the American import levy on steel and the poison attack on the ex-doublespion Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, England. The brexit and the euro zone are also discussed and possibly the Facebook scandal.
The use of an exceptional nerve gas, Novitsjok, to kill a former Russian secret agent, is madness according to the Russian Foreign Ministry. Every expert in the field of chemical weapons knows that this leads to a lot of casualties at the place where the stuff is distributed, Vladimir Jermakov of the ministry said.
The 23 Russian diplomats who have been deported by Great Britain leave that country on Tuesday. British media reported that diplomats and their families have been picked up in vans at the embassy in London and are on their way to the airport.
The Russian Foreign Ministry thinks that remarks made on Monday at a meeting of EU Foreign Ministers were driven by 'anti-Russian reflexes.'
The Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls the Russian ambassador Tuesday on the carpet. The summons comes after the claim of Moscow that Sweden could be the source of the nerve gas that was used in the attack on a former Russian double spy in England.
The claims made by the British government about the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal are defamatory and are based on nothing. London would have to prove it or apologize, a Kremlin spokesman said Monday. On the election day in Russia, Sunday, President Putin said that the allegations are complete nonsense.
The EU countries are fully united with the British after the nerve gas attack in Salisbury on a former double spy and his daughter. EU foreign ministers are very worried and come up later with a joint statement, said EU overseas head Federica Mogherini prior to consultations in Brussels.
The British government is looking into possible new measures against Russia on Monday. A government spokesman said that Saturday, after Moscow had announced 23 British diplomats to send away from the country. 'This Russian measure was already taken into account,' the spokesman said
The Russian ambassador in London has received an official diplomatic document stating that the former double spy Sergej Skripal and his daughter are in a critical condition. According to the ambassador, Great Britain hides further details, as he told the Russian news agency RIA on Friday.
British Secretary of State Boris Johnson calls it 'overwhelmingly likely' that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally made the decision to use nerve gas for an attack on a former spy in Britain.
The daughter of former spy Sergei Skripal may have unsuspectingly brought the means with which she and her father were poisoned from Moscow. The intelligence services think that the drug is stopped in the woman's luggage, say sources against the British newspaper The Telegraph.
The British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn has doubts about evidence from the government against the Kremlin about the assassination attempt in Salisbury, southern England. Corbyn does want a hard talk with Moscow about 'the horrendous violent crime.'
Prince Charles made a private visit on Tuesday at the headquarters of the British spy service MI5 in London. This can be seen from the Court Circular, the agenda of the British royal house.
The French government wants evidence that Russia is involved in the nerve gas attack in Britain. It is still too early to decide whether action should be taken, a government spokesman made clear. 'When elements are proven, the time comes to make decisions.'
Members of the British royal family and British ministers stay at home during the World Cup, which will be held in Russia in June and July. This was announced by British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday, along with a series of other measures, such as the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats.
The British decision to expel more than twenty Russian diplomats is, according to the Kremlin, a hostile act that is unacceptable, unjustified and short-sighted. The current leadership in Great Britain is responsible for the deterioration of British-Russian relations, according to the Russian Embassy in London.
The NATO countries are right behind London after the poisoning of a former double spy and his daughter in Salisbury. They are very concerned about the first nerve attack on NATO territory since the alliance began in 1949, British Prime Minister Theresa May said Wednesday in parliament. NATO member states call on Moscow to answer questions from the British government about the Russian chemical weapons program.
The British government wants an emergency session of the Security Council on the assassination attempt last Sunday in Salisbury, southern England, using a chemical weapon. The chemical developed in the Soviet Union is called novitsjok. London wants to inform the board about the investigation.
Russia has no interest in an attack on the former Russian double-spy Sergei Skripal in southern England. The people who vote against Russia do, according to the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov. And with that, the diplomatic conflict between London and Moscow on this issue is becoming increasingly widespread.
London refuses to give Russia the substance with which last Sunday the assassination attempt on the former double spy Sergej Skripal and his daughter Joelia was committed. This said the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov. He stressed that the Russian government had nothing to do with the attack in Salisbury in southern England.
The British government will react 'appropriately' if a foreign state appears to be involved in the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in England last week. That's what the British finance minister Philip Hammond said.
