The complexity of Kiev\u2019s attacks on Russia indicate that they could not have acted alone, Dmitry Peskov has said<\/p>\n
Ukraine could not have carried out terrorist attacks against Russian critical energy sites without support from Western intelligence agencies, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Izvestia on Thursday.
\nAt the \u2018Russian Energy Week\u2019 (REW) forum in Moscow, Peskov was asked to comment on Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Aleksandr Bortnikov\u2019s claims that British operatives were involved in Ukrainian strikes on Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) assets.
\nThe complexity of the Kiev regime\u2019s \u201cacts of terrorism against critical energy infrastructure\u201d indicates \u201cthat the Ukrainians themselves couldn\u2019t have carried them out,\u201d Peskov said.
\n\u201cThis couldn\u2019t have been done without the participation of Western intelligence agencies. In this case, it was the British. That\u2019s obvious,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
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UK masterminding Ukrainian strikes on international energy sites \u2013 FSB chief<\/p>\n
At a meeting of security chiefs in Uzbekistan on Thursday, Bortnikov alleged that operatives from the UK\u2019s special forces and MI6 spy agency helped Kiev plan drone strikes against energy objects belonging to the CPC earlier this year. The consortium, whose shareholders include US energy giants like Chevron and ExxonMobil, exports Kazakh crude via Russia.
\nHe also warned that British and Ukrainian forces are planning to sabotage the TurkStream pipeline, which exports natural gas from Russia to T\u00fcrkiye and several southern European nations.
\nThe FSB chief also accused British commandos and intelligence officers of being intimately involved in planning Ukrainian cross-border raids and strikes, as well as in Kiev\u2019s targeted assassinations on Russian soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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