14 EU states expelling Russian diplomats over UK spy attack: Tusk

PTI Updated - March 26, 2018 at 07:40 PM.

European Council President Donald Tusk speaks to waiting reporters after his meeting with Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May at 10 Downing Street in central London on September 26, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS

Fourteen EU states are expelling Russian diplomats in a coordinated response to the nerve agent attack on a former spy in the British city of Salisbury, EU President Donald Tusk said today.

“As a direct follow-up to last week’s European Council decision to react to Russia within a common framework, already today 14 member states have decided to expel Russian diplomats,” Tusk told a news conference in Varna, Bulgaria.

Published on March 26, 2018 14:03