(20 Mar 2018) Buses were seen departing the Russian Embassy in London on Tuesday after nearly two dozen Russian diplomats were ordered to leave Britain as part of a standoff over a nerve agent attack on British soil.
Several dozen people, including children, emerged from Russia's west London embassy on Tuesday morning, carrying suitcases, bags and pet carriers.
They boarded vehicles including a white minibus and were driven away.
Some people outside the embassy were seen waving at a bus before it departed.
The Russian Foreign Ministry earlier told The Associated Press that the 23 diplomats were expected to leave British territory on Tuesday.
On Wednesday Prime Minister Theresa May gave the diplomats - whom she said were undeclared intelligence agents - a week to leave Britain, an order which prompted Russia to retaliate with its own expulsion of 23 British diplomats.
The British diplomats are expected to leave Moscow in the coming days.
Tensions between the two countries have ratcheted higher since the March 4 poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury.
They remain in critical condition.
Britain says the pair were poisoned with a Soviet-developed form of nerve agent known as Novichok.
Russia denies involvement.
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