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Convoy departs British embassy in Moscow ahead of expulsion deadline

A Britain's Titan Airways Boeing 757 aircraft is seen at Vnukovo airport in Moscow, Russia March 23, 2018. REUTERS/Roman Marchenkov (Reuters)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A convoy of vehicles left the British Embassy in Moscow on Friday ahead of a Russian deadline for 23 diplomats to leave the country, a Reuters camera operator said. Russia expelled 23 British diplomats last Saturday in a carefully calibrated retaliatory move against London, which has accused the Kremlin of orchestrating a nerve toxin attack on a former Russian double agent and his daughter in southern England. (Reporting by Dmitry Madorsky and Christian Lowe; Writing by Polina Ivanova; Editing by Jack Stubbs)