UK ambassador to Moscow Nigel Casey has been summoned to the Russian foreign ministry. Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), told this to TASS.
“The British ambassador was summoned to the foreign ministry,” Zakharova said.
Earlier, the public relations center of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia reported that UK diplomat Edward Pryor Wilkes, who had replaced the UK intelligence officers expelled from Russia in August and worked at the UK embassy in Moscow, was also stripped of his accreditation and must leave Russia within two weeks.