[tim333]

Googling what happened:

>In what then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called an "extraordinary international response" on the part of the UK's allies, on 26 and 27 March 2018 there followed a concerted action by the U.S., most EU member states, Albania, Australia, Canada, Macedonia, Moldova, and Norway, and other NATO states to expel a total of over 140 Russian accredited diplomats (including those expelled by the UK)

which I guess is not wacking Mishin and Chepiga but it's not nothing either.

[rasz]

140 sounds like a lot until you realize there is ~50 in UK alone right now, and ~3000 across EU.

Austria, the central hub of FSB spy network (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/01/vladimir-putin...), has over 200.

Freezing ownership of https://nypost.com/2023/03/16/putin-allys-child-revealed-as-... and many more https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/11/03/8005603/ like it would hurt putin more than some tiny number or diplomats.