Russia’s FSB safety service introduced Friday that it had revoked the accreditation of six British diplomats in Moscow, accusing them of espionage and sabotage.
The British Embassy in Moscow had not but responded to a Reuters request for remark.
The FSB, the principle successor to the Soviet KGB, claimed to have paperwork displaying {that a} British Foreign Office division overseeing Eastern Europe and Central Asia was concerned in escalating political and navy tensions and dealing to make sure Russia’s strategic defeat in its conflict towards Ukraine.
“Thus, the facts revealed give grounds to consider the activities of British diplomats sent to Moscow by the directorate as threatening the security of the Russian Federation,” the FSB stated in a press release.
“In this connection, based on documents provided by the Federal Security Service of Russia and in response to numerous unfriendly steps taken by London, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, in cooperation with the relevant agencies, has terminated the accreditation of six members of the political department of the British Embassy in Moscow, whose actions showed signs of spying and sabotage,” the assertion continued.
The six diplomats had been named on Russian state TV, which additionally confirmed pictures of them.
“The English did not heed our hints about the need to stop this practice of carrying out intelligence activities inside Russia, so we decided to expel these six to begin with,” an FSB worker instructed the Rossiya-24 state TV channel.
The FSB stated Russia would ask different British diplomats to go away in the event that they had been discovered to be engaged in comparable actions.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was cited by the state TASS news company as saying that the British Embassy’s actions in Moscow had gone nicely past diplomatic norms and accused it of intentionally participating in actions designed to hurt the Russian individuals.
Source: www.dailysabah.com