"The Russian people are increasingly feeling the effects of the Kremlin's continued prioritization of the Russian defense industrial base."

It’s been a long-standing Kremlin strategy to drive a permanent wedge between the United States and Europe, dividing and weakening its traditional adversaries in the West.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Moscow expects the United States to free the Russian crew members aboard a Venezuela-linked oil tanker seized by Washington in the Atlantic earlier this month.

Trump has argued that the Arctic island is critical for U.S. security given threats posed by Russia as well as China.

A Moscow court has commenced proceedings in a significant lawsuit filed by Russia's central bank against Euroclear, the Brussels-based clearing house. The legal action seeks to recover a staggering 18.2 trillion rubles ($232 billion) in damages.

Russia Foreign Ministry said in a statement the diplomat’s accreditation has been revoked and that the individual must now leave the country within two weeks. The U.K.’s charge d’affaires in Russia, Danae Dholakia, was summoned to the ministry’s Moscow headquarters to receive the notice.

Russia is prosecuting a war that knows no borders. Ukraine is the open front, but the objective is larger: to defeat a coalition of adversaries, including all of Europe and the Russian opposition figures that have taken refuge there.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Britain should no longer be called Great Britain as it was the only country in the world to officially name itself "Great".