Russia summoned the British ambassador to Moscow on Thursday to protest Britain’s alleged involvement in Saturday’s attack on Russian warships in the Black Sea and sabotage against the Nord Stream gas pipeline in September.
The British ambassador to Russia, Deborah Bronnert, stayed at the Russian Foreign Ministry building in Moscow for about half an hour and left without making any statement.
When he entered the ministry, a group of Russian students shouted the slogan “The United Kingdom is a terrorist state”, but according to journalists from the Spanish agency Efe, the protesters left the place a few minutes later.
On Wednesday, Russian diplomacy announced it would call on Bronnert to produce alleged evidence implicating the United Kingdom in actions considered terrorist by Russia.
The State Department said it would not disclose the alleged evidence.
“It is clear. There is no doubt that the British intelligence services were involved in the terrorist attack on the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol on October 29 and in the sabotage of the Nord Stream,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zarkova said on Wednesday. of Russia, at a press conference.
The spokeswoman added that the situation will not “go unanswered”.
Russian diplomats at the United Nations Security Council had responded similarly.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that Russian security services have information “indicating that British military advisers supervised and coordinated the attack on Sevastopol Bay” using Ukrainian drones that hit a Russian navy minesweeper.
There is also information “that the UK is involved in acts of sabotage in the terrorist attack on energy infrastructure,” he said, referring to the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines.
Russia’s Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev said today that British naval forces “participated in the planning” of gas pipeline explosions.
As alleged evidence of British involvement, Moscow uses a message sent by former British Prime Minister Liz Truss to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
“It’s all done,” Truss wrote — according to Moscow — and no additional information or framework is given on the Kremlin’s sentence associating it with the September gas pipeline explosions.
According to the Kremlin, the pipeline’s operator, Nord Stream AG, discovered “two unnatural craters” between three and five meters deep in the Nord Stream.
According to Moscow, both pipes on Nord Stream 1 were damaged and one pipe on Nord Stream 2 was hit.
The two pipelines supplying Germany with gas from Russia were not working, but the pipes were full at the time of the explosion.
Source: DN
