The Kremlin said on Friday it was not Russia that had unleashed a diplomatic war with the West following the mass expulsion of US envoys in retaliation against coordinated moves by Britain and its allies over a spy poisoning.
"Russia did not unleash any diplomatic war," President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists. "Russia never initiated any exchange of sanctions."
Peskov, said he disagreed with the U.S. government's assessment that Russia's decision to expel 60 U.S. diplomats showed Moscow was not interested in diplomacy.
