“You could have per week” –

New step within the ever-deepening diplomatic disaster between Moscow and London. In response to an analogous act by Britain, the Russian Overseas Ministry declared the army attaché on the British embassy persona non grata. The protection attaché of the British Embassy in Moscow must depart the Russian Federation inside per week, the Russian Overseas Ministry stated in a press release. «On Could 16, a consultant of the British Embassy in Moscow was summoned to the Russian Overseas Ministry, to which a powerful protest was made in reference to the hostile and unfounded resolution taken by the British authorities on Could 8 concerning the attaché to protection on the Russian embassy in London,” the doc reads.

The Russian Overseas Ministry underlined that it considers this step as «a politically motivated motion with a marked Russophobic character, which causes irreparable harm to bilateral relations». «The British diplomat has been knowledgeable that the protection attaché on the British embassy in Moscow, Andrian Coghill has been declared ‘persona non gratà and must depart the territory of the Russian Federation inside per week». The Russian Overseas Ministry added that «our response to the hostile anti-Russian actions of the British facet introduced on Could 8 doesn’t finish with this measure. The initiators of the escalation shall be knowledgeable of additional retaliatory measures.”