Your trusted source

Fourteen EU countries joined with the United States and other allies to expel Russian diplomats on Monday in response to the nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal, a former Russian intelligence official, and his daughter, Yulia, in Salibsury, England, Politico reports.

European Council President Donald Tusk announced the coordinated expulsions at a meeting of EU leaders in Varna, Bulgaria.

“As a direct follow-up to last week’s European Council decision to react to Russia within a common framework,” Tusk said, “fourteen member states have decided to expel Russian diplomats.”

“Additional measures including further expulsions … are not to be excluded in the coming days and weeks,” Tusk said.

In the United States, the White House announced the expulsion of dozens of Russian diplomats and ordered the closure of the Russian Consulate in Seattle, citing the close proximity of a submarine base and the Boeing manufacturing plant.

Ukraine also announced it was expelling 13 Russian diplomats. BBC reports that Germany, France, Canada and various European countries have also expelled envoys.