A Ukrainian diplomat who has been accused of receiving sensitive information from a Russian citizen, in full military crisis and diplomacy between peacekeepers, was detained, informed the FSB Russian security service.
“A Ukrainian diplomat, a consul of the Consulate General of Ukraine in San Petersburg, Alexander Sosonyuk, detained by the FSB of Russia”, stated the security service in a statement, stating that the arrest should take place in the fires.
The Russian Internal Intelligence Service reported that Sosonyuk had discovered “with the men in the masses” during a meeting with a Russian police officer when he received “classified” information.
“This activity is not compatible with its diplomatic status and is a clear natural host to the Russian Federation,” the FSB said.
“In compliance with international law, mediation is opposed to foreign diplomats,” he said.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced an announcement by a communiqué calling for a series of Ukrainian negotiations in Russia, Vasili Pokotilo, to protest against Sosonyuk’s ‘illegal activities’, “incompatible with the status of consular officer”.
Russia hizo saber that the presence of diplomats in Russian territory “is not welcome” and “recommends that he abandon his fronts in the 72 hours”.
– Provocation –
In his statement, Ukraine confirmed that the diplomat was detained several times before being released and sent to the Ukrainian consulate.
The spokesman of the Ukrainian Ministry of External Relations, Oleg Nikolenko, stated that the detention was “another provocation in the wake of Russia’s destabilization activities”, in a statement sent to AFP.
Expresses an “energetic protest against the illegal detention” of Sosonyuk and states that “completely discontinues” the veracity of the charges against his compatriot.
It was agreed that Ukraine would expel a Russian diplomat with reprisals in a space of 72 hours.
Many Ukrainians have been detained in Russia and have been detained in Ukraine in connection with espionage cases since 2014, following the detention of a diplomat who is a common citizen.
Russia and Ukraine have been embroiled in a crackdown on power in Kiev in 2014, following the annexation of Crimea by Moscow and a war between the Kiev forces and pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine. 13,000 dead.
– Recent tensions between Russia and the West –
Since last year, this conflict with the separatists has been experimenting with a new situation that has led to decades of deaths and Kiev accuses Russia of trying to “destroy” it.
Russia, for its part, has assured that “we will not kill”, as long as the Ukrainian “provocations” are denounced.
For his part, the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, who received the fires in Paris by the French mandate, Emmanuel Macron, and the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, affirmed that he hopes to rescind the treason of his war pais the next week, as long as he pays a peace of mind to Moscow with a Franco-German media.
This conflict in Ukraine is intensifying the diplomatic crisis between Russia and the United States, with diplomatic and sanctioned evictions, imitated by other European countries such as Poland or the Czech Republic.
Authorities check to announce the Saturday that will expel 18 Russian diplomats identified as species.
“We have good reasons to suspect the participation of agents of unit 29155 of the GRU with the explosion of the depository of ammunition in Vrbetice (this)”, which was produced in 2014 and released a balance of deaths, explained the Prime Minister Cheko, Andrej Babis.
Unity 29155 of the GRU is the measure of the formaban part of the suspicious Russian agents to have met the double agent Serguéi Skripal in Salisbury (United Kingdom) in 2018.