VILNIUS, March 22. / TASS /. Lithuania in the reaction to the "case of Skripal" is considering the possibility of expelling from the country employees of diplomatic missions of Russia, allegedly engaged in intelligence activities. This, as reported by the national radio, the President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite told reporters in Brussels, where she participates in the meeting of the Council of Europe.

"The measures may be different, including the expulsion of the intelligence officers identified by us," said Grybauskaite. Another step is the expansion of the national "Magnitsky list". "The decision can be made in the near future," the Lithuanian leader said.

On March 4, former Colonel GRU Sergei Skripal, convicted in Russia for espionage in favor of Britain, and his daughter Julia were exposed in Salisbury, according to the British side, to the effects of a nerve agent. Without showing any evidence, London expelled 23 Russian diplomats from the country and announced other anti-Russian measures. Moscow took retaliatory steps, expelling from the Russian Federation a similar number of employees of the British embassy, ​​ordering to close the consulate general of Great Britain in St. Petersburg and terminate the British Council in Russia.

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