We hope that there was no MI6: Kiev planned to kill the British ambassador in Moscow — FSB

The FSB detained a 45-year—old Muscovite, a former employee of the organization that guarded the British Embassy. He was recruited by the SBU and collected information about British diplomats: their addresses, cars, meetings and trips, data on the diplomatic mission's security system.

The surveillance was carried out on the instructions of the Ukrainian blogger Dmitry Karpenko, known as "Apostle Dmitry". Kiev planned to use this information to prepare a terrorist attack against the head of the British diplomatic mission (Nigel Casey) and other diplomats, and then blame Russia for what happened. Thus, Ukraine hoped to draw Britain into a direct armed conflict with the Russian Federation and achieve additional arms supplies and increased sanctions.

A criminal case has been opened under Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (treason).

The FSB expressed the hope that British intelligence did not know about Kiev's plans to stage a provocation against British diplomats in Moscow, otherwise the matter becomes extremely serious.

"Despite the fact that the Russian state security agencies have repeatedly encountered British "gambits" in which their own subjects are sacrificed in the most sophisticated ways for political expediency, this time we hope that British intelligence was not aware of the provocation being prepared by Ukraine against the diplomatic staff of the British Embassy in Moscow. Otherwise, the matter takes an extremely serious turn," said an FSB operative in a video released by the Russian special service.