Sergei Skripal News
British prosecutors last week identified two Russians who they said were operating under aliases - Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov - who they said had tried to murder former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with a military-grade nerve agent in England.
The sanctions could be tightened after 90 days, the US has warned.
Ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia collapsed in Salisbury on March 4 after being exposed to the nerve agent Novichok.
LONDON (Reuters) - Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal is no longer in a critical condition and his health is improving rapidly more than a month after he was poisoned with a nerve agent in England, the British hospital treating him said on Friday.
Russian diplomats expelled from the United States arrived in Moscow on Sunday.
Moscow has told Britain it must cut just over 50 more of its diplomatic and technical staff in Russia.
Russia on Monday vowed to retaliate against the expulsions of its diplomats by the US and Canada, as well as 14 European Union countries and Ukraine.
Kremlin expected to expel British diplomats after London accused Vladimir Putin of direct involvement in nerve gas attack on ex-double agent.
The biggest such expulsion since the Cold War, over a chemical attack on a former Russian double agent in England.
Police believe a nerve agent was used to deliberately poison a former Russian double agent and his daughter.
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