Three buses with diplomatic number plates leave the Russian embassy in London as 23 diplomats who were expelled head back to Moscow. Twenty-three Russian diplomats have left the UK for Moscow less than a week after being expelled over the poisoning of a former spy in Britain. Around 80 people, including the diplomats' families, flew out of Stansted Airport near London on Tuesday to the Russian capital. Reuters video showed a small crowd gathered outside the Russian embassy, hugging and waving goodbye to others boarding vehicles with diplomatic plates. They were later filmed boarding a Russian Air Force plane, bid farewell by Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Alexander Yakovenko. "Unfortunately it is very sad that the British government decided to behave like that, to treat us like that," Yakovenko said from the tarmac, adding that it was a "violation of international law."
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