Russia summons UK ambassador for alleged role in Black Sea attack

MADRID, 3 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Russian Government has summoned the United Kingdom ambassador in Moscow, Deborah Bronnert, on Thursday to express its protest over the alleged role of the British Navy in an attack perpetrated against the Russian fleet in the Black Sea.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has indicated in a statement that a "strong protest" has been transferred to Bronnert for the "active participation of British military specialists in the training and delivery of units to the Ukrainian special operations forces, including the objective of carry out maritime sabotage operations".

"Concrete facts about the activities in London have been reported," he stressed, while warning that "these confrontational actions by the United Kingdom pose a threat of a worsening of the situation and can lead to unpredictable and dangerous consequences."

Thus, he has emphasized that "these hostile provocations are inadmissible" and has demanded from London "the immediate end of them." "If these acts of aggression continue, coupled with direct involvement in the conflict, the full responsibility for the disastrous consequences and increased tensions in bilateral relations rests squarely with the UK," she explained.

Moscow has recalled that London and kyiv reached in September 2020 "an agreement to expand the training program by British instructors to Ukrainian military submariners" and has said that "at the end of 2020, the parties began to launch the Initiative Naval Training Center for the Black Sea".

The Kremlin accused the UK authorities on Tuesday of coordinating and perpetrating the sabotage suffered in September by the Nord Stream gas pipelines, as well as being related to an attack on the Russian fleet in the Black Sea, both extremes denied by the British Government. .

Moscow alluded to the attack in the Black Sea as an argument to temporarily suspend the agreement signed to export grain from Ukraine, one of the few rapprochements between the parties since Putin launched the military offensive on February 24 and which was resumed. during the Wednesday session.