MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 23rd August, 2018) UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has met with US diplomats who were expelled from Russia in response to Washington's decision to expel Russian diplomatic staff over Moscow's alleged involvement in the Skripal poisoning, the UK government press service said on Wednesday.
"We are enormously grateful for the solidarity shown by the US as they stood with us when a chemical weapon was inexcusably used in Salisbury earlier this year. Today I was able personally to thank US diplomats expelled from Russia in retaliation," Hunt said, as cited by the press release.
On March 4, former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found unconscious on a bench at a shopping center in Salisbury. The United Kingdom and its allies have accused Moscow of having orchestrated the attack with what UK experts claim was the A234 nerve agent. A total of over 150 Russian diplomats were expelled from the United Kingdom and states siding with London's claims.
Russian authorities strongly refuted the allegations as groundless and expelled the same amount of foreign diplomats.
