The Foreign Ministry protested against an attempt by British intelligence to flip a Russian military attache The Foreign Ministry in Moscow called in the Dutch ambassador on Monday over an alleged attempt by UK spies to recruit a senior Russian diplomat in the Netherlands.

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Western nations would “swallow” Russia’s use of nuclear weapons against its neighbor, Dmitry Medvedev said NATO would not intervene if Moscow used nuclear weapons against Ukraine, Dmitry Medvedev has said, claiming that Kiev’s Western backers would be unwilling “to die in a nuclear apocalypse” for the country.