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Diplomats are being kicked out of 17 countries - 14 European Union states, the United States, Canada and Ukraine - in a co-ordinated effort that represents a significant diplomatic victory for the UK, which blames Russian Federation for poisoning Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia.
Earlier this month, Britain announced the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats and freezing of Russian state assets in Britain.
The British government last week expelled 23 Russian diplomats in response to the attack on Skripal, and Freeland said Canada was acting in solidarity with its ally.
Finland, Sweden, Romania, and Croatia are expelling one each.
USA ambassador Nikki Haley, Mr Trump's envoy to the UN, said: "The United States and many of our friends are sending a clear message that we will not stand for Russia's misconduct".
On Facebook, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova launched a rhetorical preemptive strike to the expulsions, disdainfully describing Western states as behaving "like loyal subjects" eager to do the bidding of London.
On the same day, the expelled Russian diplomats leave Britain.
By the evening in Moscow more than 100 Russian diplomats had received their marching orders.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May said the show of solidarity gave a strong message. Unlike with expulsions in Soviet times, the Russians no longer have Eastern European allies who can carry on the work for them, particularly in Britain.
Besides the United States, 14 European Union countries also expelled Russian diplomats, European Council President Donald Tusk said. "They hide behind the veneer of diplomatic immunity and actively engage in intelligence operations that undermine the country which they are hosted, the democracies they seek to minimise", the official said.
Netherlands: Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced the expulsion of two diplomats, saying the use of chemical weapons was unacceptable.
On March 13 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow is "not guilty". "No one cancelled Brexit, and the divorce process is in full swing", Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on Facebook. If it were up to him, he said, he'd be taking more aggressive actions, such as revealing "financial information that would embarrass Putin on the world stage", or other actions that would "really cut into him" economically. Additionally it was refusing three applications by Moscow for additional diplomatic staff.
"The nerve agent attack represents a clear threat to the rules-based worldwide order and to the rules that were established by the global community to ensure chemical weapons would never again destroy human lives", said Chrystia Freeland, the Canadian foreign minister.
European Council President Donald Tusk said 14 EU member states have made a decision to expel Russian diplomats. "Russia has again reconfirmed its disdainful attitude to the sovereignty of independent states and the value of human life".
On the other hand, with a similar argument, the U.S. government announced on Monday the expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats from the missions to that country and the United Nations, while ordering the closure of the Moscow Consulate General in the city of Seattle, in the western state of Washington, from April 2, measures that received the immediate rejection of the government of President Vladimir Putin.
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