Putin rejects tit-for-tat retaliation after US expels 35 Russian diplomats
Moscow accuses outgoing US administration of trying to sabotage Trump
Moscow
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has decided against a tit-for-tat retaliation for outgoing US President Barack Obama's expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats from the United States over cyberattacks allegedly backed by the Kremlin and aimed at interfering with the 2016 election campaign.
"We won't send anyone away," Mr Putin said in a statement from the Kremlin after his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov asked to approve a mirror expulsion of US diplomats in a televised meeting on Friday.
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