Washington,
\nUS President Donald Trump is weighing on a recommendation from his National Security Council to expel a group of Russian diplomats from Washington in response to the poisonings of a former Russian spy and his daughter in Britain, the media reported.<\/p>\n
It is believed that the US had been waiting to see what members of the European Council would do, an informed source told CNN on Saturday.<\/p>\n
On Friday, 10 European countries announced they would follow Britain’s lead by also expelling Russian diplomats.<\/p>\n
Germany, France, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Czech, Netherlands, Bulgaria, Ireland and several others will “likely” expel the Russians on Monday, a senior foreign diplomat told CNN.<\/p>\n
The UK ordered 23 Russian diplomats back to Moscow last week after the country concluded that Russia was responsible for the poisonings.<\/p>\n
The National Security Council’s recommendation to Trump comes after a high-level meeting at the White House on Wednesday in which the council drew up a range of options to take action against Russia, according to State Department officials.<\/p>\n
Members of the National Security Council and State Department are speaking with their European counterparts to gauge how many they are planning to expel, according to the source.<\/p>\n
Prior to Wednesday’s meeting, a State Department official told CNN the move would be considered a “very serious step”, especially given the last round of tit-for-tat expulsions that have left both Russia and the US with significantly smaller diplomatic forces in each other’s countries.<\/p>\n
Russia and the UK have been embroiled in a bitter diplomatic fight since Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter, 33-year-old Yulia Skripal, were poisoned in the English cathedral city of Salisbury on March 4.<\/p>\n
UK Prime Minister Theresa May called the incident “a brazen attempt to murder innocent civilians on our soil”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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