Russian Security Service Detains Ukraine Diplomat

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Russia, Ukraine Expel Diplomats as Tensions Soar - The Moscow Times

The detention of a Ukrainian consul in St. Petersburg comes at a time of global concern of a repeat of Moscow's 2014 aggression.

www.themoscowtimes.com

4/17/21
Russia's FSB security service said on Saturday it had detained a Ukrainian diplomat, accusing him of receiving sensitive information from a Russian national. In recent years Russia has detained a number of Ukrainian nationals on suspicion of spying but the detention of a diplomat is rare and seen as a sign of sharply rising tensions. "A Ukrainian diplomat, a consul of Ukraine's Consulate General in Saint Petersburg, Alexander Sosonyuk, has been detained by Russia's FSB," the security service said in a statement, using the Russian language spelling of his name. He had been detained on Friday, the security service said. Kiev confirmed the diplomat had spent several hours in detention and was now back in the Ukrainian diplomatic mission. In Kyiv, Ukrainian foreign ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko chalked up the incident to raging tensions between the two countries. "This is yet another provocation amid Russia's destabilizing activities," he told AFP in a statement. He said Kyiv was looking into the incident and would respond "in the near future."

As if Moscow never heard of diplomatic immunity. Just more of their games.