Home secretary announces closure of several Russian diplomatic premises after pattern of ‘malign activity’ in Britain and Europe
James Cleverly, seen leaving No 10 on Wednesday after the weekly Cabinet meeting, said the attache was an ‘undeclared military intelligence officer’.James Cleverly, seen leaving No 10 on Wednesday after the weekly Cabinet meeting, said the attache was an ‘undeclared military intelligence officer’.Russia’s defence attache is an “undeclared military intelligence officer” who will be expelled from the UK amid an escalation of sanctions, the home secretary said on Wednesday.
Cleverly told the Commons: “Today, in conjunction with the foreign secretary, I am announcing a package of measures to make clear to Russia that we will not tolerate such apparent escalations. Moscow will make accusations of Russophobia and spread conspiracy theories in response, James Cleverly said. “In the coming days we should expect accusations of Russophobia, conspiracy theories and hysteria from the Russian government. This is not new and the British people and the British government will not fall for it, and will not be taken for fools by Putin’s bots, trolls and lackeys.”
The government passed sanctions on six men in February who were accused of running the “brutal prison camp” where the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny died.Col Vadim Konstantinovich Kalinin, head of the “Polar Wolf” penal colony in the Arctic Circle, was the most senior to have UK assets frozen.
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