• Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May talks with Wiltshire Police's Chief Constable Kier Pritchard (left) as she arrives in Salisbury, England, on Thursday to visit the areas where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia went to, and were discovered at, on March 4, following an apparent nerve agent attack. Britain expelled 23 Russian diplomats over the poisoning of the former spy. | AFP-JIJI
    Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May talks with Wiltshire Police's Chief Constable Kier Pritchard (left) as she arrives in Salisbury, England, on Thursday to visit the areas where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia went to, and were discovered at, on March 4, following an apparent nerve agent attack. Britain expelled 23 Russian diplomats over the poisoning of the former spy. | AFP-JIJI

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ASTANA/LONDON – Russia is set to expel British diplomats in retaliation for Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to kick out 23 Russians as relations with London crashed to a post-Cold War low over an attack with military-grade nerve agent on English soil.

After the first known offensive use of such a weapon in Europe since World War II, May blamed Moscow and gave 23 Russians who she said were spies working under diplomatic cover at the London Embassy a week to leave.

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