Russia will expel 10 U.S. diplomats and would initiate other retaliatory actions in response to recent sanctions issued by President Joe Biden’s administration. “Ten diplomats were on a list the U.S. side handed over to us asking to ensure their leaving the United States. We will give a tit-for-tat response to that. We will also ask ten U.S. diplomats to leave our country,” he told a news conference. The Biden administration said Thursday that the sanctions would affect about three dozen Russian individuals and entities over what it said was attempts to interfere in the 2020 election as well as a cyberattack that was allegedly carried out on behalf of Moscow against SolarWinds, a software suite used by several federal agencies. The White House executive order was designed to send a message to the Kremlin that the White House will “impose costs in a strategic and economically impactful manner on …