Britain's ambassador protested over false information given by a member of the diplomatic staff

British Ambassador to Moscow Nigel Casey, who was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry in connection with the revealed fact of intelligence activities of a British mission employee, made a strong protest on November 26. This was reported in the press service of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

"On November 26, the British Ambassador in Moscow N. Casey was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, to whom a strong protest was stated in connection with the revealed information that the second secretary of the British Embassy E. Wilkes, when obtaining permission to enter our country, indicated knowingly false information about himself," - stated in the message on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

It is also specified that the Russian competent authorities received information confirming the affiliation of the second secretary of the political department of the diplomatic mission Wilkes Pryor to the British intelligence services. In addition, there were revealed signs of his intelligence and subversive work in Russia.

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) reported earlier in the day that Pryor, an employee of the British Embassy in Moscow, was engaged in intelligence and subversive activities. He was stripped of his accreditation and will be expelled from Russia. It is specified that he replaced one of the British intelligence officers who were found among the diplomats of the embassy earlier.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that British Ambassador Nigel Casey was summoned to the ministry in connection with the incident. Casey walked silently into the building, refusing to comment to journalists.

Casey spent more than an hour in the building of the Russian Foreign Ministry and refused to give comments to journalists.

Before that, on September 13, the FSB said that the British diplomatic mission in Moscow had uncovered the intelligence activities of six spies under the cover of diplomatic work. Their accreditation was terminated because of the threat to the security of the Russian Federation. The spies were expelled. It was specified that the diplomats were preparing provocations in the country under special instructions. The British Foreign Ministry refused to apologize. The Russian Foreign Ministry said that it shared the position of the FSB and called on London to abandon its hostile policy towards Moscow.