LONDON – Britain has finally expelled 23 Russian diplomats after theRussian double agent nerve agent case in Britain.
Three buses with diplomatic number plates left the Russian embassy inLondon on Tuesday as 23 diplomats who were expelled by Prime MinisterTheresa May over a military-grade nerve toxin attack headed back to Moscow.
Russian embassy workers waved to the leaving diplomats and their familiesas the buses pulled away, a Reuters photographer at the scene said.
Last Wednesday, after the first known offensive use of such a nerve agenton European soil since World War Two, May gave 23 Russians she said werespies working under diplomatic cover at the embassy a week to leave. -Agencies