This is the shocking moment the British ambassador to Russia accuses Putin’s trolls of harassing him during a visit to the Ural city of Yekaterinburg.
In footage of the incident, envoy Nigel Casey is heard accusing the Russian men of “harassment” and “serious violation” of the diplomats’ rights.
One of the men tells the ambassador: “We would like to invite you for a walk in Crimea, where your (British) missiles are being fired at civilians.”
Under international law, Crimea is Ukrainian territory, but it was annexed by Russia in 2014 and has been under Moscow’s control ever since.
Since Putin’s full invasion of Ukraine, kyiv’s military has deployed UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles against military targets in Crimea.
This is the shocking moment the British ambassador to Russia accuses Putin’s trolls of harassing him during a visit to the Ural city of Yekaterinburg.
In the video, one of the men adds: ‘Please tell me… your colleague previously recruited young people here to raise as agents of influence and…’
Casey, speaking in Russian, interrupts the man: “There is no need for such harassment.”
The pro-Putin troll responds: “I’m not harassing.”
But Casey tells him: “This is a serious violation of the Vienna Convention.”
The treaty regulates the rights of diplomats to work without restrictions.
The ambassador, who arrived in Russia last year, was asked: “But don’t you want to walk calmly like this through Crimea, where your missiles are shooting at civilians?”
‘I will keep you company. You do not want?’
They also made fun of him: “It’s just that you are now walking calmly on Russian soil after lunch.” Lunch, which tastes of the blood of Russian soldiers, is well absorbed in Yekaterinburg.’
The video begins with the men approaching Casey and what appear to be two members of his staff as they walk through a snowy neighborhood, with high-rise apartment blocks in the background.
There are several Russian men already armed with cameras, suggesting that the ambush of the British ambassador was a pre-planned stunt.
Their interaction begins with one of the men greeting Casey as “old friend” before asking if he can ask him some questions. “No, thanks,” Casey replies.
In footage of the incident, envoy Nigel Casey is heard accusing the Russian men of “harassment” and “serious violation” of the diplomats’ rights. Russian troll is heard suggesting that the diplomat is in the region ‘secretly’
Casey explained to the man who confronted him that he was in the Urals for a visit to the British consulate, while men with cameras filmed the interaction.
Casey told the man that the confrontation “is a serious violation of the Vienna Convention,” a treaty that governs diplomats’ rights to work without restrictions.
One of the men tells the ambassador: “We would like to invite you for a walk in Crimea, where your (British) missiles are being fired at civilians.”
Several Russian men were armed with cameras, suggesting that the ambush of the British ambassador was a pre-planned stunt.
He does not stop to talk to the men, but instead continues walking, explaining that he is in the region to visit a British consulate there after the Russian suggests he was visiting the region “secretly.”
At the end of the interaction, Casey is seen entering a dark gray Range Rover with a red diplomatic license plate.
The men do not appear to make any reference to the fact that Russia is the aggressor of the war, having invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Russian missiles have hit countless civilian sites, including homes, and killed thousands of people.
The UK announced it would supply missiles to the Ukrainian military in May 2023 and they are believed to have been used in several attacks since then.
The missiles gave the Ukrainian military a significant boost in the conflict, as they are capable of striking targets at much longer ranges than previously possible, including sites in Russian-occupied Crimea.
In September 2023, Storm Shadow missiles were used to attack Russia’s key port in Sevastopol, the capital of Crimea, severely damaging a Russian submarine and the landing ship ‘Minsk’. Some reports said the ship was destroyed.
Nine days later, another Storm Shadow missile hit Putin’s Black Sea headquarters in the same city, where Ukraine said a meeting of Russian Navy top brass was taking place. kyiv said 34 officers were killed in the attack, including the Russian commander of the Black Sea Fleet, a blow to Moscow’s forces.
When he took office in November, Casey said: “Few of the problems we face today are more important than ending the human suffering caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.”
Pictured: British Ambassador to Russia Nigel Casey in Moscow near the Kremlin.
The Zametki Volanda Telegram channel made the absurd and paranoid claim that Casey was in Yekaterinburg for ‘preliminary reconnaissance’… to search for new agents and create a spy network under the auspices of the British Embassy in Moscow.
He stated: “He is deceiving young Russians, giving them false hope, pushing them towards provocations and anti-government protests.”
The British embassy said: ‘The British ambassador visited Yekaterinburg on a routine official visit to our Consulate General, which was notified in advance to local authorities.
“Our diplomats have the right to do their jobs without being harassed.”