VLADIMIR Putin’s spooks have detained a guard at the British Embassy in Moscow who they claim was working as a Ukrainian spy.
The FSB allege that the unnamed man was plotting a deadly “act of sabotage and terrorism” against Ambassador Nigel Casey.
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The intelligence agency said Moscow would be blamed for the attacks in a false flag scheme to drag the UK directly into the war.
There is bound to be suspicion that the operation is an elaborate FSB stunt aimed at driving a wedge between Britain and Ukraine.
Moscow regularly disapprovingly depicts the UK as Ukraine’s staunchest Western ally.
Dramatic arrest footage showed the alleged 45-year-old spy being violently tackled by masked and plain-clothed FSB officers in Moscow.
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The video also claims to show a confession by the Ukrainian security service in Kyiv.
The alleged agent is accused of supplying a security and military linked Ukrainian blogger Dmytro ‘Apostle’ Karpenko with secret details about diplomats and their movements.
The purported “confession” shows the unnamed detainee claiming “the Ukrainian authorities were very interested in the information for the purpose of carrying out acts of sabotage against the British Ambassador, the Embassy, and the British Residence in Moscow”.
The detainee is shown on the FSB video saying: “I was a member of the security staff at the British Embassy in Moscow.
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“Specifically, I handled security duties at the British Ambassador’s Residence in Moscow.”
It is one of Moscow’s most prominent diplomatic buildings directly across the river from the Kremlin.
The suspect continued: “In January of this year, I contacted Dmitry Karpenko, a Ukrainian blogger and journalist [and] told him I worked at the British Embassy in Moscow.”
Hr claimed that Karpenko asked for information about the Ambassador and his staff, such as the cars they drove, restaurants they visited and their day-to-day movements.
He also said that the blogger was also extremely interested in the security arrangements and how protection were handled at the British Embassy and Residence in Moscow.
This allegedly included the access control system, events held on the Residence grounds, and the number of security personnel on duty.
The Sun has contacted the Foreign Office for comment.
The FSB was once headed by Putin and is long suspected of staging stunts.
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