The expulsion of Russian diplomats from Greece does not contribute anything positive to the bilateral relations between Moscow and Athens, Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.
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A media report said Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in early March in the UK city of Salisbury, with members of their family.
On Saturday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, wrote on Facebook that more than 50 diplomats and staff members of the UK diplomatic mission in Russia would have to return to the UK in order to maintain the parity in the number of diplomatic personnel of the two countries.
Earlier in the day, Johnson said it would be “very difficult to imagine” that the UK representation at the World Cup could “go ahead in a normal way” in light of the Salisbury incident, stressing that London will “certainly consider that”.
“Washington not only did not rescind the decision to expel our employees, but also refuses to issue visas to those who must travel as replacements,” Zakharova said at a weekly briefing.