Russia detains Ukrainian Envoy but later released

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MOSCOW, 18 April 2021, (TON): Russia detained a Ukrainian diplomat for allegedly receiving classified information from a database of the country’s main security agency.

The Federal Security Service (FSB) confirmed on Saturday that Alexander Sosonyuk, Ukraine’s Consul in St Petersburg, was taken into custody on Friday during a meeting with a Russian in which he received “information of a classified nature contained in the databases of law enforcement agencies and the FSB”.

Further details were not known about the incident.

Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said Sosonyuk has been released from custody and is safe but he did not say if he is at Ukrainian Embassy at Leontievskiy Lane Moscow or at St Petersburg. So far he has not been confirmed when asked to move out of Russia.

The detention comes amid escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine over Russian military buildup along the border with the eastern Ukraine region.

 

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