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‘COLD WAR’: AS TRUMP EXPELS 60 RUSSIAN DIPLOMATS AND 21 countries join the biggest ever mass expulsion of Russian diplomats from their territories.
‘COLD WAR’: AS TRUMP EXPELS 60 RUSSIAN DIPLOMATS AND 21 countries join the biggest ever mass expulsion of Russian diplomats from their territories.
‘COLD WAR’: AS TRUMP EXPELS 60 RUSSIAN DIPLOMATS AND 21 countries join the biggest ever mass expulsion of Russian diplomats from their territories.
US president , Donald Trump today expelled 60 Russian diplomats from America . This came as a punishment for the Salisbury poisoning saga.
The European Council president, Donald tusk today, also announced the expulsions of 32 Russian diplomats in 14 of the EU’s member states and warned that further measures might yet come.
Originally, Britain expelled 23 Russian diplomats, and now the total of European-based spies expelled stands at 55.
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, has said Russia’s response will be reciprocal, warning that the decision by Western countries was a “mistake”.
Some 48 diplomats at the Russian embassy in the US have been asked to leave and 12 Russians who work at the United Nations. The Russian consulate in Seattle will also be closed.
Senior US administration officials said the Russians being expelled were intelligence officers who are being “cloaked” by their diplomatic status.
The US officials accused Russia of a “reckless attempt” to murder British citizens on UK soil and said the attack would not go unpunished.
US officials said that the lives of “countless” innocent people including children had been put at risk by the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. They also blamed the Kremlin directly for the attack.
A number of European Union member states, including Germany and Poland, have announced similar moves this morning.
Germany, France and Poland are expelling four suspected spies each. Linas Linkevicius, Lithuania’s foreign minister, tweeted that his country would expel three Russian spies and sanction 21 Russians and ban 23 from entering Lithuania.
The Czech Republic have kicked out three diplomats and the Danes and Italians are expelling two each.
Netherlands, Spain and Latvia are expelling two Russian intelligence officials each .
Romania, Croatia, Hungary and Estonia are expelling one Russian intelligence official each.
Ireland is expected to follow suit when it makes an announcement tomorrow.
France will expel four Russian personnel with diplomatic status, within one week.
Although not a member of the EU, Ukraine has, in solidarity with its neighbours expelled 13 Russian diplomats.
US officials said the 60 Russians were part more more than 100 spies operating in America. They said they would make decisions in the future about what to do with those remaining.
shoulder in sending the strongest signal to Russia that it cannot continue to flout international law.” Telegraph
THIS DEVELOPMENT COMES JUST LESS THAN A MONTH AFTER Putin amazed an attentive audience in Russia when he gave a State of the Nation Address in which he presented video footage of ‘new generation nuclear weapons’ which are designed to bypass US security systems, He showed footage of cruise missiles, intercontinental ballistic missiles, underwater drones and supersonic jets in what some likened to the onset of the next cold war.
The presentation revealed what Putin said in a surprise 200 tonne Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles which can dodge defence and missiles that can travel at supersonic speed at five times the speed of sound and reach any point around the world.
The State of the Nation address was attended by several key figures including Russian MPs and senators who applauded the military video.
This address by Putin was said to be a two pronged message, firstly to the West, don’t push us and, secondly with Russia’s elections due soon, the message to the Russian people is clear: ‘Vote for Putin and you’ll be voting for national security’
President Putin’s video showed a missile launch and demonstrated that Russia has developed a new range of nuclear weapons that are considered invincible, including a cruise missile said to have the capability to reach any point in the world.
Putin warned that the West: “need to take account of a new reality and understand … this… is not a bluff.”
Putin showcased new nuclear delivery systems development which showed missiles that allegedly can evade missile detection, along with “low-flying, difficult-to-spot cruise missiles… with a practically unlimited range and an unpredictable flight path, which can bypass lines of interception and is invincible in the face of all existing and future systems of both missile defence and air defence”.
In another presentation Putin showed a submarine-launched, long-range missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to the target. More news to follow. By Sibusiso Ngwenya
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