The British took revenge on the Russians

In the latest in a series of reciprocal moves, Britain&#39;s Foreign Office said it was taking &quot;immediate reciprocal action&quot; after Moscow accused a British diplomat and his wife of espionage.In a statement, the Foreign Office accused Russia of fabricating the allegations &quot;to justify increasing harassment of British diplomats&quot; and &quot;actively seeking to force the British Embassy in Moscow to close.&quot;The Russian ambassador to the United Kingdom, Andrey Kelin, was summoned yesterday to a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, according to the announcement.&quot;Persecution - Russia will take measures&quot; Russia revoked British diplomats&#39; credentials: SpiesThe official &quot;made it clear that the UK will not tolerate intimidation of British embassy staff and their families&quot;, and that the accreditation of the Russian diplomat and his wife was being revoked as a result. Accreditation is recognition of diplomatic status by the government.&quot;Moscow is conducting a harassment campaign&quot;The Foreign Office has accused Moscow of conducting an &quot;increasingly aggressive and coordinated campaign of harassment of British diplomats&quot; and &quot;spreading malicious and completely unfounded allegations about their work&quot; for 12 months, the BBC reports.The statement said that Russia is trying to force the British embassy in Moscow to close and that Russia &quot;does not care about the dangerous escalation effect of this&quot;.The British government believes in &quot;maintaining diplomatic channels of communication&quot; with Russia, &quot;despite extremely difficult bilateral relations caused by Russia&#39;s illegal invasion of Ukraine and the long-term campaign of hostile actions against the United Kingdom,&quot; the statement continued.Russia expels two more British diplomatsThe UK move comes after Russia ordered two British officials to leave within two weeks after the domestic security service accused them of &quot;intelligence and subversive work&quot;.The multiple expulsions of diplomats come amid worsening Russian-British relations since Russia&#39;s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. In the past year alone, seven British diplomats have been expelled from Russia, with Moscow accusing them of espionage - charges the UK has denied.

The British took revenge on the Russians

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