British ambassador summoned over intel activities arrives at Russian Foreign Ministry

Russian Politics & Diplomacy November 26, 16:04

Nigel Casey did not respond to any of the journalists' questions

MOSCOW, November 26. /TASS/. British Ambassador to Moscow Nigel Casey has arrived at the Russian Foreign Ministry, where he was summoned over the intelligence activities of a British mission employee, a TASS correspondent reported.

The ambassador's car drove up to the Russian Foreign Ministry's building on Smolenskaya Square.

Casey did not respond to any of the journalists' questions.

The Federal Security Service of Russia earlier reported that the second secretary of the political department of the UK Embassy in Moscow, Wilkes Edward Pryor, who replaced one of the six British intelligence officers expelled from Russia in August of this year undercover, has also been stripped of his accreditation. He has been ordered to leave Russia within two weeks.

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