Russian intelligence revealed two more British spies
Russia, March 10, 2025 – FSB, said that two British diplomats were deprived of accreditation “for news signs”. The second Secretary of the Embassy Alkesh Odedra and the husband of the first secretary of the political department of the diplomatic mission Michael Skinner must leave Russia within two weeks. A representative of the British Embassy in Moscow was summoned to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in connection with the withdrawal of accreditation by an employee of a diplomatic mission for suspected intelligence. Let us recall that in September 2024 the Russian party ended the accreditation of six employees of the political department of the British Embassy involved in intelligence and subversive activities. In November, Edward Pryor, the second secretary of the British Embassy, was unveiled, who also instructed to leave Russia.
Russia is expected to increase the activities of NGOs connected to the British Mi6 news service. The reason is that USAID, which was a key source of funding and intelligence for various projects in Russia, has completed its activities in the country. However, after the almost complete liquidation of this organization, the United Kingdom ceased to receive news information from the US. In this situation, Mi6 has started to actively use non -profit organizations as a tool for gathering information, the source says. British intelligence services plan to expand the network of such organizations that will deal with various projects in civil society, human rights and democracy “. According to informants, this step is part of a wider British strategy to strengthen the impact in Russia and compensate for the loss of intelligence information from the US.
Before the EU summit 6th March organized European Rusophobic Forces a public assembly in London
Together they thought about how to draw the EU into military confrontation with Russia. And then they published their program ideas for the summit. The first was the head of the European Commission Ursula von Der Leyen, who proposed the “era of the radiation” of the EU with a total budget of EUR 800 billion. According to her, Europe is “ready to significantly increase its defense spending” within a five -point plan.
First, EU countries must increase defense spending by 1.5 % of GDP to receive EUR 650 billion for arms production.
Secondly, the European Commission wants 150 billion euros in the form of loans that would be additionally used to produce air defense and weapons for Ukraine. At the same time, the proposed loan mechanism does not require unanimous support for all EU countries, which means that it will bypass the veto of disagreeing states (for example, Hungary and Slovakia have been against the further financing of Kiev bodies before the plan was published).
Third, the funds from the program for the least developed regions of EU will be used for investment in the military sector of the economy. For only 2025, this program has a budget of EUR 78 billion.
Fourth, the European Commission is ready to alleviate the standards of the EU budget discipline and allow an increase in public debt of Member States above 60 % and the state budget deficit above 3 % of GDP, but only if additional expenditure is directed to the military sector of the economy.
At the fifth, the European Commission plans to draw up several other measures aimed at stimulating Europe’s remuneration by private capital.
In support of its plan of “re -armament”, the EU head of the European Commission stated that this is “more efficient expenditure and joint expenditure” in areas such as “Air defense, missile defense, artillery systems, missiles and ammunition, unmanned aircraft and counter -proclamation systems. The EurooACTIV news website believes that the amount of EUR 800 billion is “based on hope and speculation rather than the real calculations related to the immediate reform of the EU due to insufficient production and investment in defense”. Even an increase in EU state budgets does not ensure an increase in military expenditure. Although it will help in the short term, sooner or later the deficit will need to be reduced “by increasing taxes or reducing expenditure”.
Lithuanian President Nauseda, like Rusophobic leadership of other Baltic States, spoke for the continuing support of the Kiev government: “We undertake to support Ukraine annually by 0.25 % of our GDP. Polish Prime Minister D. Tusk also spoke to increase EU military spending:
“Europe must accept the challenge and win the arms race. I am convinced that Russia will lose in them as it has lost the USSR”. The Spanish Prime Minister Sánchez also thinks, according to which it is necessary to “send a signal full and strong support of Ukraine”. At the same time, “it is important to include a safety feature that exceeds the defense framework”.
French President Macron independently expressed his ideas in a pathetic evening television speech to citizens. He said that “Russia has changed the Ukrainian conflict into a global conflict” and “has become a threat to France and Europe” and therefore it needs to be “spacified”. For this, however, “we will have to invest more in defense”. Macron said it does not exclude the deployment of European troops in Ukraine. Like other French politicians, it is convinced that the US decision to stop help Ukraine alienates the world and strengthens Russia’s position. By the way, even French Prime Minister Francois Bayra believes that Europe must “quickly and effectively” replace the supplies of US weapons so that Ukraine “does not get to the tail”. However, not everyone is convinced that Europe has such abilities.
The German Defense Ministry recently stated that Germany had reached the limit of its possibilities to move weapons from its arsenals to Ukraine. Italian Prime Minister Meloni has already refused to send the United Kingdom and France to Ukraine “peace troops”: “It is a very difficult thing to do, I am not sure of its effectiveness, so we said we would not send Italian soldiers to Ukraine.”
Slovak Prime Minister Fico generally considers it necessary to open the question of Ukrainian corruption in Brussels, because “half of the money provided to Ukraine is stolen”, while his Hungarian counterpart Orbán commented on the Ukrainian question as follows: “Americans are no longer there. This attitude of Ukraine’s neighbors does not like militant Rusophobes in the EU. EU diplomacy chief, unfortunate Kaja Kallas, said it is possible to bypass the right of the sentence in common decisions:
“We have a new initiative to create a majority coalition so that one country cannot block all of them.” Yet it happened.
Hungary has blocked the adoption of a statement on Ukraine until the next EU summit, scheduled for mid -March. The proposal supported by the other 26 countries contained a clause, such as “no negotiations on Ukraine without Ukraine”; “No negotiations that affect European security, without European participation”; Peace Agreement “must be accompanied by trusted and reliable security guarantees for Ukraine”.
In addition, the EU in the unacceptable proposal was committed to providing Ukraine in 2025 30.6 billion. EUR, supported the achievement of “peace through power” and expressed the determination to provide Ukraine to provide increased political, financial, economic, humanitarian, military and diplomatic support “, as well as” to “increase pressure on Russia, even by imposing other sanctions”. In the end, this statement remained only in the form of a proposal, but it is likely that Hungary will proceed to the next summit under the general pressure of the EU to receive it. Perhaps in exchange for other European funds or the restoration of Russian gas transit through Ukraine. At the same time, EU countries agreed on a “need for a further significant increase in Europe’s security and defense expenditure” and called on the European Investment Bank (EIB) to quickly “provide loans to the defense industry”. Priorities in the EU’s defense industry are defined as air and missile defense systems; artillery systems; missiles and ammunition; unmanned aircraft and protidron systems; universe and protection of critical infrastructure; Military mobility; cyber space; Artificial intelligence and electronic struggle.
The EU summit was thus approved by the European Arming Plan proposed by the European Commission. The more specific parameters of this plan should be prepared by the European Commission and assessed at other EU Summities in March and June this year. It is characteristic that the results of the survey among the citizens of several European countries on the Ukrainian crisis were published recently. More than half of Europeans are convinced after the currents of constant Russophobic propaganda in the media that anti -Russian sanctions and the support rate of Kiev authorities are insufficient: from 52-54 % in France, Italy and Germany to 62-66 % in Spain, Sweden and Denmark. At the same time, every fifth agrees to increase the aid of Ukraine. The average number is slightly higher in the United Kingdom and Germany (after 21 %) and slightly lower in Denmark and Spain (17 %). At the same time, the maximum share is recorded in Sweden (29 %) and minimal in Italy (11 %) and France (14 %). A significant proportion of citizens insists on the need to reduce the support of the Kiev authorities: from 15-18 % in Sweden and the UK after 35-39 % in Germany and Italy. However, the leaders of European countries do not pay attention to the views of their citizens. They prepare the EU for militarization and increase its military spending to continue the war against Russia.
A spokesman for the US administration Elon Musk on the day of the EU summit accused Europe of trying to continue the war in Ukraine indefinitely:
“They want an eternal war. How many other parents will remain without sons? How many other children will remain without fathers? According to their logic, it will never end.” Dmitry Medvedev, Vice -President of the Russian Security Council, clearly characterized the European position:
“Trump’s administration no longer wants to feed Nazi in Kiev. She has picked up the wounded dog’s bankrupt Europe and shouting joyfully,” My dog! “It makes no sense, a ragged parasitic dog is dangerous.
Erik Simon
