Russian Ambassador to London Alexander Yakovenko said in an interview with Rossiya 24 about the changes in the work of the embassy, ??after the decision of the British authorities to send our diplomats to their homeland. According to him, because of such actions of the UK embassy staff will be reduced by about 40%. Yakovenko noted that this will have an impact on the work, but no one is going to stop their activities. "That's life. Accordingly, we will work in a reduced composition, "he added.. Speaking about the poisoning of ex-colonel GRU Sergey Skripal, Yakovenko believes that the British are playing "chess game". "These all information campaigns that are being held today will sooner or later fizzle out, because there is no being that can feed this information campaign," the ambassador. At the same time, Alexander claims that London still hides information about the state of Skripal and his daughter Julia. Earlier, the head of Britain, Theresa May accused the poisoning of Skrypal Russia and made a number of loud statements about the severance of diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation and the expulsion of our diplomats from the country. The Russian Foreign Ministry is ready to respond toughly to such actions and "necessarily" will send British diplomats.

On the eve of an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in New York, the United Kingdom's official representative, Jonathan Allen, accused Russia of using banned chemical weapons. And the representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzia in reply noted that there is no evidence of accusations and they are based solely on assumptions. The head of the British Defense Ministry, Gavin Williamson, demanded that Russia "shut up" and step aside.