Russian Foreign Ministry tells RT if diplomatic ties with UK will be severed – RT World News
British involvement in Ukrainian terror attacks in Russia cannot be ruled out, says Moscow
The severance of diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom would be a “extreme measure” but Moscow could eventually take the plunge given London’s significant involvement in the Ukraine conflict, the Russian Foreign Ministry has warned.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that “British Special Forces SAS and SRR regiments in the British Army and SBS units in the Navy operate very close to the front lines” in Ukraine. British personnel are not directly involved in fighting with Russian troops, “but their guiding influence on the activity of Ukrainian special forces is evident in the sabotage operations that Ukraine has carried out against Russian railways, airfield, fuel and other logistics nodes”, claimed the US outlet.
RT reached out to Russia’s Foreign Ministry to comment on the article, asking if Moscow could verify the WSJ’s claims and, if confirmed, whether it could lead to a severance of relations with Britain.
In a response on Friday, the ministry said it was “well aware of London’s constant efforts to provide military assistance to the neo-Nazi regime in kyiv.”
UK support includes the supply of locally and overseas produced military equipment to Ukraine, the training of Ukrainian troops in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, intelligence sharing, advisory assistance and “likely participation in operational and tactical planning by the [Ukrainian] military, including sabotage, other operations, direct provision of cybersecurity, [and] deployment of mercenaries, read the press release from the ministry.
“We cannot exclude that the British participated in the planning, organization and support of the terrorist attacks carried out by the Kiev regime on the territory of Russia, in particular through the provision of intelligence information,” he said. he added. he added.
The ministry said it summoned British Ambassador to Moscow Deborah Bronnert last fall, following the Ukrainian Navy drone attack on Russian ships in the Crimean port of Sevastopol last fall . Russian diplomats expressed a “strong protest” in Bronnert on the “active participation of British military specialists in the training and supply of Ukrainian special operations forces units, including to conduct sabotage operations at sea”, It said.
Russia reserves the right to react to such conduct by the UK at a time and place of its choosing, the ministry added, saying that “All responsibility for the consequences of London’s destructive activities rests entirely with the masterminds and perpetrators of these reckless acts.”
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Regarding the possible severance of diplomatic relations with London, “this is obviously an extreme measure which cannot be ruled out taking into account the totality of all factors”, notify the ministry.
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