A team of British investigators is in Bulgaria looking into whether the 2015 suspected poisoning of a local arms dealer has links to the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter last year in Salisbury. “There is a British team here on the ground...
It has been a year in which the GRU’s operations, from election hacking to novichok poisoning, have been uncovered and plastered on the front pages of western newspapers more often than the secretive military intelligence agency, or its Kremlin boss...
Russia’s ambassador to the UK, Alexander Yakovenko, said Moscow would only accept the results of tests conducted by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on a suspected nerve agent used to poison the former Russian spy Sergei Skri...
An emboldened Russia will on Thursday attempt to discredit Britain’s international reputation at the UN after a series of blunders by Boris Johnson and the Foreign Office led to accusations that the UK had overstated its case that Russia was respons...
Russia’s announcement that it will expel 60 US diplomats and close the American consulate in St Petersburg was a predictable and symmetrical response to the surprisingly tough decision by Washington to throw out 60 Russian diplomats, but left unansw...
Nato has announced it is cutting the size of its Russian mission by a third, removing accreditation from seven Russian staff and rejecting three other pending applications. The Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said the permanent size of the...
Theresa May says she has ‘found great solidarity’ from EU member states following the collective expulsion of Russian diplomats in response to the nerve agent attack in the UK. May welcomes what she calls ‘the largest collective expulsion of Russian...
The expulsions of Russian diplomats on Monday reflect how widely Vladimir Putin has attempted to wage his brand of hybrid warfare and how many leaders and their intelligence agencies he has angered in the process. Even before the Salisbury poisoning...
The Kremlin has denied a claim that the poisoned former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal wrote to Vladimir Putin asking to be pardoned and to be allowed to visit his home country. The former Russian intelligence officer, who came to Britain in 20...
The European Union has recalled its ambassador from Moscow after leaders on the continent threw their weight behind Theresa May’s stance over the Salisbury attack. Several EU member states were poised to announce expulsions of diplomats, in a bid to...
Russia’s ambassador to the UK has described Boris Johnson’s comparison of this summer’s World Cup to the Nazi Olympics as “unacceptable and totally irresponsible”. Speaking at a press conference, Alexander Yakovenko complained that Britain had refus...
Boris Johnson has predicted the Russian president Vladimir Putin will glory in the World Cup this summer in the same way that Adolf Hitler did over the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, and suggested the UK will need to advise English soccer fans not...
Boris Johnson tells the BBC's Andrew Marr Show the UK government has evidence that Russia has 'not only been investigating the delivery of nerve agents for the purpose of assassination, but has also been creating and stockpiling novichok' within the...