{"id":57051,"date":"2026-02-02T16:51:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uk-revokes-accreditation-of-russian-diplomat\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T16:51:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:51:35","slug":"uk-revokes-accreditation-of-russian-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uk-revokes-accreditation-of-russian-diplomat\/","title":{"rendered":"UK revokes accreditation of Russian diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Office condemned &#8220;in the strongest possible terms&#8221; Russia&#8217;s decision to expel a British diplomat last month and its &#8220;baseless accusations against our staff,&#8221; said the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Any further action taken by Russia will be considered an escalation and responded to accordingly, it added.<\/p>\n<p>On January 15, the Russian foreign ministry said Russia had decided to expel a British embassy employee for alleged affiliation with the British special services.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said it summoned the British charge d&#8217;affaires in Russia on the same day and lodged a strong protest regarding the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry had decided to revoke the accreditation of the employee and ordered him to leave Russia within two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Moscow will not tolerate the activities of undeclared British special services staff on Russian territory,&#8221; it said, adding that if London escalates the situation, the Russian side will give a decisive &#8220;mirror&#8221; response. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-101473 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ydlsrnxzsvmhlaoajt5l44cm3q.jpg\" alt=\"A security camera is seen, and a flag flies outside the consular section of Russia&#039;s embassy in London, Britain. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-101474 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/5719c20e-fc55-46e6-b7cf-98a5337051b4.jpg\" alt=\"Russian ambassador to the UK Andrei Kelin was summoned to the UK Foreign Office to be informed of the move by the government.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain summoned the Russian ambassador and revoked the accreditation of a Russian diplomat, according to a statement by the British Foreign Office on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000101475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-57051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000101475,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ydlsrnxzsvmhlaoajt5l44cm3q.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ydlsrnxzsvmhlaoajt5l44cm3q.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ydlsrnxzsvmhlaoajt5l44cm3q.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ydlsrnxzsvmhlaoajt5l44cm3q.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ydlsrnxzsvmhlaoajt5l44cm3q.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ydlsrnxzsvmhlaoajt5l44cm3q.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000101475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57051"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=57051"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=57051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}