Russia’s FSB security service has charged a former US consulate employee with collecting information on the war in Ukraine for Washington, state news agency TASS said.
The suspect, Robert Shonov, allegedly passed on information to US embassy staffers in Moscow on how Russia’s conscription campaign was impacting political discontent ahead of the 2024 Russian elections, TASS quoted the FSB as saying.
The FSB said it planned to question embassy employees who were in contact with Shonov.
In May, the embassy said “the allegations against Mr. Shonov are wholly without merit”, and his “only role at the time of his arrest was to compile media summaries of press items from publicly available Russian media sources”.
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