LONDON: Britain revoked the accreditation of a Russian diplomat on Wednesday (Mar 12) in response to Russia’s expulsion of two British diplomats this week and it accused Russia of making an attempt to drive its embassy in Moscow to shut.
The transfer is the newest in a sequence of tit-for-tat diplomatic sanctions after Russia accused two British diplomats on Monday of spying – allegations rejected by Britain as “baseless” – and gave them two weeks to go away the nation.
“It’s clear that the Russian state is actively looking for to drive the British Embassy in Moscow in direction of closure and has no regard for the harmful escalatory impression of this,” a Overseas Workplace spokesperson mentioned in an announcement saying the transfer.
Russia’s embassy in London didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
