With the rising tension between the United states and Russia following the drastic actions taken by the Obama administration against Russia for their alleged hacking during the US elections last November. The White House expelled from the U.S. 35 Russians whom it characterized as intelligence operatives, and the State Department said it has close two properties it said were used for the Kremlin’s intelligence operation.
But the Russian government in response to the action declined to retaliate. The Russian embassy in UK took to Twitter on Thursday and Friday to mock the U.S. after President Obama announced sanctions and other punishments in retaliation for the Kremlin’s interference in U.S. elections. The Russia’s embassy in the United Kingdom stated it was looking forward to President-elect Donald trump’s administration and used a photo on twitter to illustrate the fact that Obama is a “lame duck” president with only a handful of days left in office.
The Russia’s U.S. embassy also published a “season’s greetings” statement from Putin to various world leaders, trump, past U.S. Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush — but not Obama. The Rusia UK embassy also posted on a photo of former Britain’s former Prime minister Winston Churchill on their twitter account: Kremlin`s response to @BarackObama `s expulsions: Winston Churchill: in victory magnanimity.
President Obama and the U.S. intelligence community have accused Russia of spearheading the cyberattacks that leaked troves of emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman.
Meanwhile trump has praised the “delay” adopted by Russian President Vladimir
Putin, apparently referring to Putin’s refusal to retaliate for the U.S. expulsion of 35 Russians over their alleged involvement in hacking the democratic party before the Nov. 8 presidential election.
“Great move on delay (by V. Putin) – I always knew he was very smart!,” trump stated in a Twitter post.
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