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00:00Russia government under the leadership of President Vladimir Putin has banned and expelled
00:05six British diplomats over alleged espionage and threatened to terminate the British diplomatic
00:10mission in the country if investigation shows employees of the British mission are also
00:15spying to weaken the powers of Russia.
00:18The Russia Federation took the decision as the United Kingdom, UK Prime Minister Keir
00:24Sturmer scheduled arrived United States of America, USA to meet with President Joe Biden
00:30to discuss granting the troubled Ukraine the permission to use USA and UK long-range missiles
00:36inside Russia.
00:38Putin earlier reacted to the plan to allow Ukraine use the weapons, saying such will
00:44escalate the war into NATO, European and American countries.
00:49The USA long-range missiles are already deployed to the war-torn country, Ukraine, but the
00:55country has been on restriction not to use the weapons inside Russia since it began its
01:00retaliatory military offensive campaign against Russia few months ago.
01:05The diplomats' activities threatened Russia's security and were aimed at ensuring Moscow's
01:10defeat in its war against Ukraine, according to local media.
01:15The six British diplomats in Russia were accused of spying and their accreditation
01:20were revoked, according to the Kremlin's security agency, FSB's statement on Friday.
01:27The FSB claimed that it received documents indicating that they were sent to Russia by
01:32a division of the UK Foreign Office, whose main task is to inflict a strategic defeat
01:38on the country and that they were involved in intelligence-gathering and subversive activities.
01:44The move comes two days after the US and UK pledged nearly €1.35 billion in additional
01:51aid to Kiev and as Ukrainian officials renewed their pleas to use Western-provided missiles
01:56against targets deeper inside Russia.
02:00The FSB said that, if similar actions are detected among employees of the British diplomatic
02:06mission, the FSB will demand early termination of their missions in the Russian Federation.
02:13The British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer has arrived in Washington for talks with US President
02:19Joe Biden on allowing Ukraine to fire missiles supplied by the West into Russia.
02:24On Thursday, the Prime Minister said that Russia started the war against Ukraine and
02:30can end it right away.
02:32The UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer stated this while speaking with reporters on on Thursday
02:38following Russian President Vladimir Putin's warnings that the use of Western arms in
02:43Russia will draw NATO into war.
02:46Putin made the statement in reaction to growing insinuations that the US and the UK are considering
02:52easing restrictions on Ukraine using long-range weapons to strike targets deep inside Russian
02:57territory, something Kiev has requested for months.
03:01Putin said while speaking with reporters as reported by the state TV that such a decision
03:06would mean nothing less than the direct involvement of NATO countries, the US and European states,
03:13in the war in Ukraine, adding it would also mean that the very essence of the conflict
03:19will change and Moscow will take appropriate decisions based on the posed threats.
03:26Putin has also claimed that the Ukrainian military would not be able to use cutting-edge
03:31Western arms without direct assistance from NATO militaries.
03:36Speaking during the flight to Washington for his meeting with US President Joe Biden, Starmer
03:41said Russia started this conflict.
03:45Russia illegally invaded Ukraine.
03:48Russia can end this conflict straight away.
03:50To reiterate, it was Russia who started this in the first place.
03:55The cause of the conflict, they are the ones who are acting unlawfully, the British Prime
04:01Minister stressed.
04:03The EU has also revoked Putin's threats.
04:06EU spokesperson Peter Stano said that Putin regularly makes false statements and that
04:11nothing will change Brussels' stance as long as he continues his illegal war against Ukraine.
04:19Starmer and Biden are expected to discuss long-range strikes during their meeting on
04:24September 13, but it is unclear whether the final decision will be made that day, according
04:30to foreign media.
04:32As reported on Friday, a source close to President Volodymyr Zelensky told The Kyiv Independent
04:38that the Ukrainian president provided a detailed explanation on the need for long-range strikes
04:43to American and British top diplomats, Antony Blinken and David Lange, during their visit
04:49to Ukraine on September 11, 2024.
04:54According to the Ukraine-based local media, Kyiv Independent, Ukraine has received shipments
04:59of long-range ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles from the US and the UK, but the two countries
05:06did not permit their use inside Russian territory so far.
05:11Kyiv has repeatedly appealed to its partners to lift the ban and allow Ukraine to counter
05:16Russian aerial strikes and ground offensives effectively.
05:20BBC reported that the six diplomats banned by Russia left Russia many weeks ago.
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