Russia displays two British diplomats for suspected spy Political news

The United Kingdom denies “malicious and unfounded accusations” after FSB says it “identifies signs of intelligence and subversive work” by employees.

Russia has accused two British diplomats of spying and ordered them to leave the country within two weeks, the Tit-For-Tat Explussions Above the alleged espionage.

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said that on Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs canceled the accreditation of diplomats, accusing them of providing false information when they were authorized to enter Russia.

The Counterintelligence Agency also said it “identified signs of intelligence and subversive work” that the two employees had done, harmed Russian security.

The message came as diplomatic relations Between Russia and the United Kingdom, they continue to deteriorate as a result of the full -scale invasion of the former in Ukraine in February 2022.

Friday jury in London condemned Three Bulgarian citizens Based in the UK to perform “industrial” spying on Russia.

Last week, a Russian court Also sentenced to 19 years in prison, a British, captured while fought for Ukraine in the Russian Kursk region.

And in early February, the United Kingdom said it would cancel the accreditation of a Russian diplomat as a revenge on a similar move made by Russia last November.

FSB did not identify the two diplomats by name, but said they were the second secretary of the British Embassy and the husband of the first secretary to come to the country “under the cover of the National Embassy”.

The Russian Foreign Ministry also called a representative of the British Embassy in connection with the charges.

In a statement, the UK foreign spokesman denied Russia's last expulsion and spying accusations.

“This is not the first time Russia has made malicious and unfounded accusations against our staff,” the spokesman said.

The scandals with the intelligence of Russian President Vladimir Putin have been stranded by diplomatic ties between Russia and the United Kingdom in the fourth century.

In 2006, the United Kingdom accused Moscow of standing behind the murder of a former Russian agent and critic of the Kremlin Alexander Litvinenko In an attack on poisoning in London.

And in 2018, the United Kingdom and its allies expelled dozens of employees of the Russian Embassy, ​​which they said they were spies because of the attempt to poisoning a former dual agent, Sergei SkripalWith a Novihok nerve agent.

Russia has denied any participation.