It comes amid deteriorating relations between Britain and Russia following the latter’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Last week it became known that Great Britain for the first time lifted restrictions on the use by Ukraine of British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles against targets in Russia.
At the same time, President Vladimir Putin cited the move launch of long-range missiles supplied by the USA on the territory of Russiawhat is behind Russia’s decision to launch a new hypersonic missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday.
The expulsion of diplomats has become an increasingly common phenomenon since the outbreak of war.
Earlier this year, British diplomat Captain Adrian Coghill was given a week to leave RussiaIt comes days after Russia’s defense attache was expelled from London for alleged espionage as an “undeclared military intelligence officer”.
