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Six employees of the United Kingdom embassy in Moscow have been stripped of their accreditation for engaging in intelligence and subversive activities incompatible with their diplomatic status, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on September 13.
“The Russian Federal Security Service has received documentary materials confirming London’s coordination of the escalation of the international military-political situation,” the press office said in a statement.
“The said documents show that in the UK the main unit coordinating subversive activities in Russia’s direction (and in the countries of the former USSR) is the Directorate for Eastern Europe and Central Asia of the UK Foreign Office, which after the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine was transformed into a special service whose main task is to inflict a strategic defeat on our country,” it added.
In response to this information as well as to unfriendly steps of London, the FSB said that the Russian Foreign Ministry, in cooperation with the concerned agencies, terminated the accreditation of six employees of the political department of the UK Embassy in Moscow who were engaged in “intelligence and subversive activities” in their work.
“The revealed facts give grounds to consider the activities of UK diplomats sent to Moscow by the Directorate as a threat to Russia’s security,” the agency’s press office added.
The FSB went on to warn that if similar actions are detected in the employees of the UK diplomatic mission, an early termination of their business trips in Russia will be demanded.
The UK has been providing the Kiev regime with military support since the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine more than two years ago.
London was also accused by Moscow of playing a key role in undermining peace talks with Kiev in the early weeks of the operation.
The FSB move against the UK diplomats in Moscow came amid reports of a near decision by London to allow the Kiev regime to use British-made long-range weapons, namely the Storm Shadow cruise missile, in direct attacks on Russian territory. The move will likely provoke a fierce response from Moscow.
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