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UNIAN: Russia confirms receipt of Ukraine’s note on non-extension of friendship treaty

By UNIAN.

Published Sept. 25, 2018 at 1:18 pm

The Russian flag flutters on the rooftop of the Russian embassy in Kyiv on March 28, 2018.Ukraine is to expel 13 Russian diplomats as part of a coordinated effort by European nations and the US to punish Russia over an attack on a former Russian spy in England. Poroshenko announced Monday. "In response to a cynical chemical attack in Salisbury, Ukraine, in the spirit of solidarity with our British partners and transatlantic allies and in coordination with EU countries, decided to expel 13 Russian diplomats from the few that remain (in Kyiv)," Poroshenko said in a statement.

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Russia’s Foreign Ministry confirms it has received an official note from Kyiv about Ukraine’s decision not to extend a friendship treaty between the two countries.

“The note was brought to us by a charge d’affaires on September 24,” Director of the Second CIS Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrei Rudenko told reporters, the Russian news agency TASS said.