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Ukraine: Man Arrested at UK Airport on Suspicion of Spying For Vladimir Putin
The man in his 40s was detained at London's Gatwick Airport on Monday under the Official Secrets Act reportedly on suspicion of spying for Vladimir Putin and remains in police custody
Daily Mirror 15 JUN 2022
A man was arrested in the UK on suspicion of spying for Vladimir Putin, it has been been reported.
The man in his 40s was detained at London's Gatwick Airport on Monday under the Official Secrets Act and remains in police custody.
Met Police confirmed he had been detained under section 1 of the act - which refers to spying and sabotage "useful to an enemy state".
A source told The Sun: "The suspect is believed to have been in the UK spying on behalf of the Putin regime.
"He was kept under observation and arrested as he arrived at Gatwick to try and fly out of the country."
Met Police confirmed he had been detained under section 1 of the act - which refers to spying and sabotage "useful to an enemy state".
A Met Police spokesperson told the Mirror: "We can confirm that officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command arrested a man in his 40s at Gatwick airport on Monday 13 June on suspicion of offences under section 1 of the Official Secrets Act 1911.
"He has been taken to a London police station, where he currently remains in police custody."
It comes after Russia has warned that Europe will be wiped off the map if Western nations provide nuclear-capable missiles to Ukraine.
The threat comes after Poland's former foreign minister suggested that those allied against Russian aggression in Ukraine may have legal grounds to provide the deadly weapons.
The man in his 40s was reportedly arrested for spying for Vladimir Putin's regime
Radoslaw Sikorski claimed that Vladamir Putin had violated the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances of 1994 and therefore that Western nations could justifiably provide the missiles in order to "give Ukraine the opportunity to defend its independence".
Following Ukraine's declaration of independence in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union, the government agreed to destroy its nuclear arsenal and join the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Despite Russia joining the NPT at the time, Mr Sikorski said Putin had broken the terms of the agreement with the invasion of Ukraine.
Russia struck back at Mr Sikorski's comments with venom. Viacheslav Volodin, the Head of the State Duma wrote on his Telegram account that Poland - along with the rest of Europe - would "cease to exist" if Russia is threatened.
Former Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski
He said: "With such deputies, the Europeans will have much more serious problems than those they have already faced today (refugees, record inflation, energy crisis).
"Sikorski is provoking a nuclear conflict in the centre of Europe. He doesn’t think neither about the future of Ukraine nor about the future of Poland.
"In case his suggestions are fulfilled, these countries will cease to exist, as will Europe as well.
"Sikorski and the like are the reason why Ukraine must not only be set free from the NAZI ideology but also be demilitarized, securing the nuclear-weapon-free status of the country."
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