RUSSIAN SPY AT NO10
Aide at May talks held over ‘links to Kremlin’
STANDING inches behind Theresa May, this is the political aide who was yesterday arrested over claims he is a Russian spy.
Stanislav Yezhov was at talks between the PM and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Groysman in
Downing Street this July. He was held by Kiev’s secret service over fears he had been funnelling information from Ukraine to the Kremlin.
Mrs May said last night: “I’m aware of the reports. It’s a matter for Ukrainian authorities.”
Yezhov has worked at the Ukrainian embassy in the US, where he visited the White House.
He was at No10 as an interpreter for Groysman, who yesterday tweeted: “Joint efforts with the state security service identified an official who had for a long time worked in the interests of a hostile nation. He was detained.”
Security chiefs claimed Yezhov acted on the orders of Russia to collect information “about the activities of government structures’’. Mrs May was in Warsaw yesterday to sign a landmark defence deal with Poland. The PM said Britain would stand alongside its NATO ally in the face of Moscow’s aggression in the east.
She said: “We are both deeply concerned by Russia’s attempts to weaponise information.”
The spy revelation puts further strain on Anglo-Russian relations on the eve of a visit by Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to Moscow.
He said: “Our relations with Russia cannot be ‘business as usual’ whilst Russia attempts to destabilise European states, including Ukraine.
“However, it is vital for international security that we do talk to each other.”