Russia expels U.K. diplomats as Putin warns over Ukraine’s Western weapons

Russia on Friday stripped six British diplomats of accreditation, accusing them of spying, ahead of a crucial White House meeting between President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer that is expected to discuss whether to allow Ukraine to strike military targets deep inside Russia using some long-range Western weapons.

On the eve of the meeting, President Vladimir Putin also issued a tough warning that if Ukraine did fire Western missiles deep into Russia, it would mean that Russia was at war with NATO, and Moscow would respond accordingly.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said that Britain’s Foreign Office was coordinating “the escalation of the political and military situation” in Ukraine to ensure Russia’s defeat in the war and the diplomats were “threatening the security of the Russian Federation.”

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