Russia expels two Dutch diplomats over spy poisoning: Dutch envoy

Ambassador of the Netherlands to Russia Renee Jones-Bos leaves the Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters in Moscow on March 30, 2018. / AFP / Vasily Maximov/

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia on Friday informed the Dutch ambassador of the expulsion of two diplomats in a tit-for-tat measure over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in Britain, TASS state news agency reported.

Dutch Ambassador Renee Jones-Bos told TASS state news agency: “Two of my colleagues are leaving Moscow. But we (the embassy) are staying here.”