British police have arrested three people suspected of running sabotage and espionage operations for Russia.

The detentions on Thursday east of London mark the latest in a string of espionage allegations that Moscow has been recruiting people to engage in attacks and spying across Europe.

The suspects – two men aged 41 and 46, and a 35-year-old woman – were detained in Essex on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service, a charge under the National Security Act, introduced in 2023 to give broader powers against foreign state threats.

Police said the arrests followed an investigation into suspected collaboration with Russian intelligence.

Head of London’s Counter Terrorism Command, Commander Dominic Murphy, said the United Kingdom had seen “an increasing number of who we woul

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