The Russian Foreign Ministry has announced the expulsion of two American diplomats, who were previously accused of recruiting a Russian national as a confidential informant. US Ambassador Lynne Tracy was summoned on Thursday to be issued with a ‘demarche’ note, a form of diplomatic protest, regarding David Bernstein and Jeffery Sillin, the Russian diplomatic department…

The peninsula is a crucial military hub for Russia, Ukraine’s military intelligence believes Kiev sees the Crimean Peninsula as a legitimate target for long-range weaponry supplied by the West, a spokesman for Ukraine’s Directorate of Intelligence at the Ministry of Defense, Vadim Skibitskiy, said on Saturday.

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