Compassion for the British subjects expelled from Russia awoke at the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin. He turned to the head of the British Foreign Office, Boris Johnson, with the corresponding proposal. "I suggest that Boris Johnson employ 23 British diplomats in Kiev and resume the work of the consular section: Ukrainians will be happy to receive British visas again quickly and not through Warsaw," he wrote in his Twiiter. Earlier, the Russian department decided to expel 23 employees of the British Embassy in Moscow. Measures - a mirror reaction to a similar act of London. Relations between the two countries became more complicated after the poisoning of ex-employee of the GRU, spy Sergei Skripal.