Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced Monday it was suspending its mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in response to the expulsion of eight members of Russia’s mission to the military alliance. NATO said those members were secretly working as intelligence officers and halved the size of Moscow’s team able to work at its headquarters.
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