Police in the United Kingdom have arrested three men on suspicion of assisting Russia’s foreign intelligence service, as tensions between a key ally of Ukraine in the war and Moscow continue to simmer.

The Metropolitan Police said on Thursday the men – aged 44, 45 and 48 – were arrested from west and central London under the 2023 National Security Act “on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service”.

They said the country in question is Russia , according to The Associated Press news agency.

Those addresses, along with another, are currently being searched, with counterterrorism police leading the investigation, they said.

British authorities allege that Russia is conducting an increasingly bold campaign of espionage, sabotage and cyber-interference against the United Kin

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