She added that the move was made in conjunction with Belgium’s neighbour the Netherlands, whose foreign ministry said it was expelling 17 Russian diplomats it considered to be secretly active as intelligence officers.
In response to Biden last week calling Putin a “war criminal”, Russia’s foreign ministry said on Monday it had summoned US Ambassador John Sullivan.
Four are American, according to the Israeli foreign ministry.
Malaysia’s foreign ministry has confirmed that two Malaysians were wounded in the attack and have been taken to hospital.