Trump expels 60 Russian diplomats

Bloomberg

In the US and across the European Union, a number of Russia diplomats are being expelled in a coordinated response to the nerve-agent poisoning of a former Russian spy in the UK.
President Donald Trump has ordered the departure of 60 Russian diplomats. Russia is poised to respond in kind while 14 European nations are unrolling their own action.
Germany and France have expelled four Russian diplomats other nations area following in rapid succession. The Russians are poised to retaliate in coming days.
Last week EU leaders declared in a statement that it was “highly likely” there was “no plausible alternative explanation” other than Russia being to blame. We are following developments here. The timestamps are in Brussels time.
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson tweeted: “Today’s extraordinary international response by our allies stands in history as the largest collective expulsion of Russian intelligence officers ever & will help defend our shared security. Russia cannot break international rules with impunity.”
The Russian state-owned news service said the Kremlin will respond in “coming days.” When May announced 23 expulsions, Russia took five days to respond and matched the expulsions and also shut down the British Council.
Earlier, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said earlier that Russia will respond to expulsions on the principle of reciprocity, so it seems inevitable there will be tit-for-tat retaliation.
Russia warned that it won’t take any expulsions lying down. The Kremlin hasn’t had any official information on reported U.S. plans to expel diplomats and will act reciprocally if such actions take place, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman told reporters on a conference call.
Tusk kept open the possibility of extra expulsions of Russian officials by EU nations.
“Already today 14 member states have decided to expel Russian diplomats; additional measures, including further expulsions within the common EU framework, are not to be excluded in the coming days and weeks” “We remain critical of the actions of the Russian government”
Germany plans to expel four Russian diplomats in response to an alleged chemical-agent attack in the UK, Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported. The four are officials with intelligence backgrounds to be expelled out of solidarity with UK as well as for lack of cooperation from Russian authorities, Sueddeutsche says, without saying where it obtained the information.