Employees of the diplomatic mission of Britain in Russia pack their suitcases. Soon the delegation will be expelled from the country. However, when exactly the subjects of the Queen are at home is not yet known. This was told by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Answering a question about whether Moscow will send British diplomats, he replied "necessarily," RIA Novosti writes..

Earlier that a response to the actions of the UK is being developed, said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. Relations between the two countries deteriorated against the background of news about the poisoning of former GRU officer Sergei Skripal, who was spying for the British Queen. In the year 2006. he was convicted, and after four years he was exchanged for Russian agents declassified in the United States. Since 2010 year. defector lived well in Britain. March 4, 2018, he and his daughter were poisoned.