A plane carrying 35 diplomats
expelled from the United States over Russia’s alleged meddling in the US
presidential election arrived in Moscow today.
US intelligence says the Kremlin
ordered a hack-and-release of Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton campaign
staff emails in a bid to put Donald Trump in the White House.
Moscow has repeatedly dismissed the
allegations.
According to reports, the expulsions
of the diplomats described as intelligence operatives based at the Russian
embassy in Washington and the consulate in San Francisco were part of a package
of sanctions ordered by President Barack Obama in the final weeks of his administration.
Obama also ordered the closure of
two Russian compounds in New York and Maryland that the United States says were
used “for intelligence-related purposes.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin last
week rebuked the outgoing president for “unfriendly steps” amounting to “a
provocation aimed at further undermining Russian-American relations.”
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