RUSSIAN SPY IN 10 DOWNING ST
AN ACCUSED Russian spy stands inches from Theresa May inside Downing Street.
Our photo shows Stanislav Yezhov, who interpreted for Ukrainian PM Volodymyr Groysman during his talks with May in July and has now been detained on suspicion of spying for the Kremlin.
It is feared he had access to highly sensitive conversations and the revelation has placed
new strains on relations between Britain and Russia.
May, whose Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is due to visit Moscow, said yesterday: “I’m aware of the reports. It’s a matter for the Ukrainian authorities.”
The PM, in Warsaw to sign a landmark defence deal with Poland, said: “We are both deeply concerned by Russia’s attempts to weaponise information.
“The Kremlin is seeking to undermine the international rules-based system and it will not succeed.”
Yezhov previously worked at the Ukrainian embassy in the US. It is understood he was present at private meetings between May and Groysman, who does not speak English well.
Groysman said yesterday his security service had identified and detained someone who “had for a long time worked in the interests of a hostile nation”.
Johnson said: “Our relations with Russia cannot be ‘business as usual’ while Russia continues to attempt to destabilise European states, including Ukraine.
“The Kremlin positioned Russia in direct opposition to the West, but it doesn’t have to be that way.”
A SPOOF letter from Theresa May to Santa Claus emerged yesterday … and it was only slightly less believable than the PM’s real Brexit strategy.
The satirical letter doing the rounds on social media pokes fun at May, who insists the UK can leave the EU but retain all the trading rights as other member states.
The letter finishes: “We’re determined to make a success out of not believing in Santa. While still getting you to deliver all our presents. Yours, Theresa May.”
And in the wake of the May Santa letter, we have imagined what other political figures in Scotland would ask for in their annual letter to the chubby bloke in the red suit.
In the real world, May was on an official trip to Poland where she called for a “satisfactory resolution” to a bitter dispute between the EU and Poland over controversial justice reforms.
And she could not help smiling as an interpreter for Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki referred to her as “Madam Brexit” in a televised translation.