Expelled Russian Diplomats Return From US Amid Spy Dispute

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - APRIL 1, 2018: A man walking at Moscow's Vnukovo-2 Airport where an Ilyushin Il 96 passenger aircraft carrying the Russian diplomats expelled from the US has landed. The United States has expelled 60... MOSCOW, RUSSIA - APRIL 1, 2018: A man walking at Moscow's Vnukovo-2 Airport where an Ilyushin Il 96 passenger aircraft carrying the Russian diplomats expelled from the US has landed. The United States has expelled 60 Russian diplomats and closed the Russian Consulate General in Seattle over the poisoning of former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, the UK on March 4, 2018. Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS (Photo by Stanislav KrasilnikovTASS via Getty Images) MORE LESS
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian diplomats who were expelled from the United States and their families have returned to Moscow.

Russian news agencies say they returned on two flights that landed Sunday at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport. One carried diplomats from the Russian Embassy in Washington; aboard the other were diplomats from the New York consulate and Russia’s United Nations mission.

The United States last week ordered 60 Russian diplomats to leave, part of a widespread expulsion of diplomats by Britain and some of its allies in connection with the poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter.

Britain alleges Russian involvement in the March 4 nerve agent poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury. Moscow adamantly denies that and has ordered tit-for-tat expulsions of Western diplomats.

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  1. The United States last week ordered 60 Russian diplomats to leave …

    … but left the door open for 60 more to take their place.

    That’ll teach 'em.

  2. It’s ok. Jared has that back channel wide open.

  3. Was Donnie Dotard one of the 60 Russians expelled?

    I wish…

  4. Avatar for jasan jasan says:

    70 new spies were on board to the United States on return flights.

  5. …flew in from miami beach BOAC
    didn’t get to bed last night.
    Vodka in a paper bag on my knee
    man, I had a dreadful flight.
    I’m back in the USSR…

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