Two people connected to the British embassy in Moscow have been ordered by Russian authorities to leave the country, and they claim they were doing intelligence news work.
Citing the Russian Federation Security Bureau (FSB), the Russian State News Agency (TASS) has identified two individuals who were expelled as the second secretary of the British Embassy and as the spouses of another British diplomat.
It named them and accused them of deliberately declaring false information about themselves as they entered the country.
According to the Russian government, they accused them of “intellectuality and destructive activity,” and they were given two weeks to leave.
The FSB had revealed what was called “signs of intelligence and sabotage and signs of sabotage,” Tass added, by threatening Russia's national security.
The Russian government posted a video to X on Monday morning, indicating that what it said was the representative of the British embassy, which has been summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The UK government has not commented yet.
The move will be the latest in a series of powerless expulsions by Russia and the British.
The UK expelled a Russian diplomat with Foreign Secretary David Lamy last month, saying that action was taken in November “following the recent expulsion of a British diplomat.”
Russia has accused British diplomats of giving false information and spying.
The announcement came after a massive criminal investigation left six members of the Russian proxy spyring called “minions,” one of the “largest and most complicated” enemy operations revealed in British soil, leaving six members known as “minions” who faced behind the bar.
Bulgarian Katrin Ivanova, 33, Vanya Gabellova, 30, and Tikhomir Ivanchev, 39, were convicted last week of old Bailey, who spies on a “industrial scale” and endangering lives and national security.
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They will be declared in May along with mastermind Olyn Rusev (47). His deputy commander, Bizar Zhanbazov, 43; Ivan Stoyanov, 33, admitted their role.
In January, the Guardian reported on how Russian diplomats accessed private areas of Congress in a massive security breaches just before Christmas, which made them wary of the security guards and urged private warnings from speakers in both homes.
Since the onset of Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the range of British politicians and journalists has also been forbidden from entering Russia.
Dozens of others, including Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner and other members of the Cabinet, have also been added to the so-called “stop list” by Russia.
