Russia withdraws accreditation six UK diplomats for suspected espionage 

MOSCOW, Sept 13: Russia's FSB security service on Friday announced that the accreditation of six British diplomats had been withdrawn for suspected espionage and for "threatening Russia's security".

"As a measure of reprisals to the multiple unfriendly acts of London, the Russian foreign ministry ... has withdrawn the accreditation of six employees from the political department of the British embassy in Moscow," it said in a statement.

Accusing them of carrying out "subversive activities and intelligence" gathering, the FSB said it had "documentary" proof confirming London's "coordination of an escalation in the international political and military situation".
It said the British foreign ministry's Eastern Europe and Central Asia department was coordinating moves aimed at inflicting a "strategic defeat" on Russia.—AFP