UK Summons Russian Envoy Over ‘Orchestrated Malign Activity’
- Follows earlier arrests over arson attack on Ukrainian firm
- Attack was ‘in order to benefit Russia,’ the CPS says
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The UK summoned the Russian ambassador on Friday, after police earlier charged several men under a new national security law for supporting Russia by carrying out an arson attack against a Ukraine-linked business on British soil.
Britain “remains deeply concerned by allegations of Russian orchestrated malign activity on UK soil, as well as the wider reported pattern of behavior we are witnessing on the part of the Russian Federation to sponsor such activity on the territory of other, sovereign states,” the Foreign Office said in a statement.