Russia has furiously accused the UK of overseeing the “vast majority” of Ukraine’s attacks on Vladimir Putin’s Black Sea fleet.
In a video statement distributed by the Federal Security Service (FSB), an intelligence officer said that the agency “has regularly received information about the participation of Western intelligence services, primarily British, in the training of Ukrainian special forces.”
“We have established the supervisory role of British special forces in the vast majority of terrorist and sabotage actions against ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and the Crimean Peninsula,” he added, as per a report from Kremlin-operated news agency Tass.
The FSB also claimed British forces helped train Ukraianian troops, as well as supplying Kyiv with reconnaissance equipment and “new types” of weapons and explosives.
“The British intelligence services do not bother planning deeply thought-out actions and detailed operations, much less care about the safety of the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the FSB officer reportedly said.
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No evidence was offered to support the claims. Daily Express US has contacted the office of UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapps for comment.
Ukraine has promised that the war cannot end until Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014, is back under Kyiv’s control.
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