The Russian ambassador to the UK will be summoned by the Foreign Office, Sky News understands.<\/p>\n
It comes after the British Council building in Kyiv suffered major damage in Russian strikes overnight.<\/p>\n
The group’s chief executive, Scott McDonald, said their guard for the building was injured but “stable”.<\/p>\n
“At the insistence of my amazing colleagues, we will continue operations in Ukraine today wherever possible,” he added.<\/p>\n
“Their resilience is awe-inspiring and I am deeply thankful they are all safe.”<\/p>\n
Earlier, Sir Keir Starmer said: “My thoughts are with all those affected by the senseless Russian strikes on Kyiv which have damaged the British Council building.<\/p>\n
“Putin is killing children and civilians, and sabotaging hopes of peace. <\/p>\n
“This bloodshed must end.”<\/p>\n
What is the British Council?<\/b><\/p>\n
The British Council is an arms-length body from the government.<\/p>\n
It claims to “support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide”.<\/p>\n
The group facilitates schemes like working, living and learning abroad for British people.<\/p>\n
Most of its funding comes from the fees it charges people for its services, but it does also get funding from the FCDO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Russian ambassador to the UK will be summoned by the Foreign Office, Sky News understands. It comes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-380353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115106493497454444","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}