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Ambassador calls Skripals case pretext for US provocations against Russian diplomats

"As for today, we haven’t received any reasonable explanations for the expulsion of our diplomats," Anatoly Antonov said

WASHINGTON, March 31. /TASS/. The case over the alleged poisoning of the former Russian military intelligence officer and British spy Sergei Skripal has played into the US hands as a pretext for inappropriate actions against Russian diplomats, the Russian Ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov told a group of Russian reporters in Washington.

"As for today, we haven’t received any reasonable explanations for the expulsion of our diplomats," he said. "The Skripals case is just a pretext for the fanning of Russophobia so that the Americans could take tough, disproportionate and provocative steps against the Russian diplomats and diplomatic properties.".