2023-08-29 06:52:00
6:40 am: Russia indicts a former Russian employee of the American diplomacy
The Russian security services (FSB) announced Monday that they have charged a Russian citizen, a former employee of the American diplomacy in Russia, arrested at the beginning of the year and accused of having transmitted to the United States information on the conflict in Ukraine .
At a time when relations between Russia and Washington, which supports Kiev, are extremely tense, the FSB asked to be able to question, a rare occurrence, two American diplomats accused in this affair.
In mid-May, Moscow announced the arrest of Robert Chonov, a former employee of the American Consulate General in Vladivostok, accused of “confidential collaboration with a foreign State”. Washington then denounced the “unfounded” accusations. On Monday, the FSB confirmed that Robert Chonov had been charged with the charge, which carries a possible eight-year prison term.
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