BRUSSELS/KYIV – The European Union (EU) has said that Russia’s interference in the internal affairs of other states over the arrest of a person who is believed to have spied for Russia is unacceptable.

“We know about the arrest of an Austrian colonel on espionage charges for Russia, investigations in Austria, as well as the decision of the Austrian foreign minister to cancel his trip to Moscow,” one of the EU officials told Interfax in Brussels.