issued by russian government, just not in real names. sergei skripal an ex-kgb officer, he and his daughter barely survived the russian nerve agent and it killed a bystander severely sickening several other in the city including an officer. and following that attempted russian assassination in britain over 100 diplomats expressed from the country and including the u.s. and produced the moment when we learned president trump very upset and almost panicked when he learned that the u.s. was actually expelling more russian diplomats than other countries were in response to the skripal's attempted assassination. trump administration apparently had done the math wrong and thought they were only expelling a sort of average number of russian diplomats. thought they were only doing what all the other countries