May Targets Putin Over Poisoned Former Spy as Ties Deteriorate
- U.K. leader ejects 23 Russian diplomats, warns of more attacks
- Russian Embassy condemns ‘hostile’ British leadership
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Prime Minister Theresa May threw 23 Russian diplomats out of Britain in retaliation for the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter on U.K. soil, as she braced the country for further attacks.
May said the U.K. will move to freeze Russian state assets where necessary in response to what she called an “unlawful use of force” involving a weapons-grade nerve agent against the U.K. More steps will be taken against Vladimir Putin’s government in secret, she said, a hint that Britain could launch cyber-attacks on Kremlin interests.