The Russian security service FSB said in a statement that Russian authorities received “documentary materials confirming London’s coordination of the escalation of the international military-political situation.”
According to the FSB, the documents show that the six diplomats who worked in the political department of the British Embassy in Moscow took actions that showed signs of “conducting intelligence and subversive work.”
They wrote that the Foreign Office section in London responsible for Eastern Europe and Central Asia had become “a special service whose main task is to inflict a strategic defeat” on Russia in its invasion of Ukraine.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the actions of the British diplomats were aimed at “causing harm” to the Russian people and that they “went far beyond the limits set by the Vienna Convention,” without specifying what was meant by that.
