The snow clad grave of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky with his portrait on the tomb at the Preobrazhenskoye cemetery in Moscow
Since blame has been attributed to Russia, Trump still has yet to comment - and his reluctance to do so is palpable, particularly when paired with former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's firing hours after he criticized Russia for the chemical attack. A policeman who responded to their collapse on a bench outside a shopping center was also exposed and his condition is classed as "serious".
He said the attack was Russia's "way of saying to people this is what happens to people who stand up to our regime".
President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said to expect a Russian response "shortly" to Britain's expulsion of Russian diplomats and accused Britain of violating worldwide law and "common sense". The spy, Sergei Skripal, had ceased to be an active threat to its interests.
Petersburg International Economic Forum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on June 2, 2017.
However, Ms. May did not refer to questions about the future of RT U.K. Earlier this week, regulator Ofcom said it would reconsider the status RT's licence, because ANO TV Novosti, the holder of its licence, was financed from a budget of Russian Federation.
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson says it's "overwhelmingly likely" Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the use of a nerve agent against a former spy in the English city of Salisbury.
"We do hold Russian Federation culpable for this brazen, brazen act and despicable act", Prime Minister Theresa May said during a visit to the site of the attack in Wiltshire.
"Who to vote for, how to exercise your right to free choice, that is the decision of each person", Putin said in a video released late Thursday and carried in news bulletins on Friday morning.
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The penalties also include the first use of new powers that Congress passed past year to punish Moscow for election meddling. The Trump administration is accusing Russian Federation of a new and ongoing operation to penetrate the USA energy grid.
It was the strongest accusation yet from an American official that Moscow was responsible for the use of "a military-grade nerve agent" - and a warning that other countries face the risk of similar actions on their own soil. "No one here believes this was a Russian attack", he said via telephone from Moscow. Simultaneously, Russia's ambassador to the United Kingdom, Alexander Vladimirovich Yakovenko, told Britain to prepare for retaliation for the 23 expelled diplomats.
On Thursday, Lavrov accused May of grandstanding in her response to the incident, and said the Kremlin response would "come very soon".
On Wednesday, Britain said it would expel 23 diplomats and suspend high-level contacts with Russian Federation, with other measures to follow.
Britain, the US, Germany and France jointly called on Russian Federation on Thursday to explain the attack.
"Moreover, these accusations were voiced before any information about the substance used emerged, which shows the presence of all signs of a provocation against Russia", Peskov told reporters. Lavrov says Russian Federation will kick out British diplomats in a worsening standoff over a nerve agent attack, but still isn't saying when or how many. The U.K. said samples of the nerve agent will be made available to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for testing.
The chemical weapon, a nerve agent identified as Novichok, was used to poison a former Russian spy turned double agent, Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33.
"The UK can convince European Union countries to adopt sanctions against Russia, but it will be hard", Sam Greene, head of the Russian Institute at King's College London, told AFP.
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