The UK will expel 23 Russian diplomats over the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, in the single, biggest expulsion in more than 30 years.
Theresa May, UK prime minister, says a deadline issued on Monday for Moscow to provide an explanation for how a Russia-made nerve agent had ended up in Salisbury met with "complete disdain".
She now has a week to convince EU leaders to back her measures against Moscow, before a summit next Thursday.
Al Jazeera's Barnaby Phillips reports from London.
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