Spy poisoning could be in interest of UK: Russia!

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

• More than 150 Russian diplomats have been ordered out of the US.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday suggested the British government could be behind the poisoning of a former double agent that has triggered an unprecedented wave of tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats.
More than 150 Russian diplomats have been ordered out of the US, EU members, Nato countries and other nations as punishment for the March attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury which Britain has blamed on Moscow.

The counterclaims from Moscow came as the last Russian diplomats were set to leave the countries where they were posted.

A Russian diplomat left Macedonia along with family members earlier Monday and was seen off at the airport by the Russian ambassador, TASS state news agency reported.

The Kremlin has vehemently denied the accusations that it was behind the nerve agent attack and ordered Britain and its allies to recall some of their envoys from Russia.

On Monday, Moscow's top diplomat Lavrov told a news conference that the Skripal attack "could be in the interests of the British government which found itself in an uncomfortable situation having failed to fulfil promises to its electorate about the conditions for Brexit."