Russian authorities have ordered a British diplomat to leave the country on allegations of spying as tensions soar over the conflict in Ukraine

Russia said on Tuesday it was expelling a British diplomat for alleged spying, in the latest blow to the already dire state of relations between the two countries. The FSB security service said the diplomat,

Russia expelled a British diplomat who worked at the embassy in Moscow Tuesday, accusing him of spying, marking the latest blow to the two countries’ worsening diplomatic relations. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) alleged that the British diplomat intentionally provided false information to enter the country as a cover for espionage work,

Our support for Ukraine has kept them in the fight, but we need to go further to change the trajectory of the conflict,” he said before holding a working lunch with the Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

The envoy was accused of activities threatening Russia’s security, straining already tense relations between the countries.