The United States has expelled 60 Russian diplomats over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter earlier this month in Salisbury England. Britain has blamed Russia for the military-grade nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal [skrip-AL] and his daughter Yulia earlier this month (March 4). Russia denies any involvement and says the U-S and Britain are behind the attack.
The U-S Ambassador to Russia, Jon Huntsman, says Russia cannot currently be trusted.
A total of 20 countries, including 14 European Union nations, have expelled Russian diplomats.
The announcement affects more than 100 Russian diplomats, in the biggest Western expulsion since the height of the Cold War. President of the European Council Donald Tusk says the Council will also look at further sanctions.
In the mean time The Australian federal government is expelling two Russian diplomats it believes are undeclared spies. The officials will have to leave the country within seven days. The move is closely linked to the attack with a nerve agent on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain earlier this month. The attack is widely believed to have been carried out by Russia.
Australia is one of more than 20 countries to expel Russian diplomats as a result of the attack .
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the use of chemical weapons on British soil by Russia is not just an attack on Britain, but on its allies, such as Australia.
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