Putin still wants to mend foreign ties despite row - Kremlin
Russian President Vladimir Putin still favours mending ties with other countries, despite a decision to expel scores of Western diplomats in a row over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in Britain, a Kremlin spokesman said.
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- Published Date: 12:00 | 30 March 2018
- Modified Date: 12:59 | 30 March 2018
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.