Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday alleged that the UK was behind a foiled plot against a Russian nuclear power plant.
The Russian leader claimed that a group of “saboteurs” was captured by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). “During the questioning, they testified that they were trained under supervision of British instructors,” Putin said, according to Russia’s TASS news agency.
Putin did not offer any evidence for the accusation and did not name what nuclear power plant the saboteurs planned to target but insisted he was telling the truth. “The leadership of British intelligence agencies knows that I am telling the truth,” he said.
The Russian leader questioned if Britain’s leadership was aware of the activities of their intelligence agencies. “Do they even understand what they are playing with? Do they provoke us to some response actions against Ukrainian nuclear facilities, power plants?” he said.
Putin’s accusation comes after Ukraine has significantly stepped up drone attacks inside Russian territory. Moscow has made clear it believes the US and its allies are involved in the attacks, and The Economist recently reported that the operations often use intelligence gathered by Kyiv’s Western backers.
Western involvement in attacks inside Russia, whether real or perceived, risks a major escalation as Moscow could retaliate by targeting NATO. The US shows little concern for the risk, as Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that “targeting decisions” are up to Ukraine even if they’re using US-provided missiles.
More & more it seems that the U.S. & it’s NATO Gnomes are getting desperate for some win, any win, maybe even giving the Russians a flat tire…
Extremes like the above are the patent of the War Party hard-core, the Neocons. They want to provoke a general war.
They are so obsessed with idea to do something nasty to Russia and to Russians that it looks they are really got crazy.
The Rt Hon James Cleverly MP’s signature is all over the place:
According to Cleverly, legitimate military targets beyond Ukraine’s borders are part of Kyiv’s self-defence and the West must now recognise this.
Putin’s question should resonate with ALL world leaders. We wouldn’t give “the football” to a child. The operatives might have started something they couldn’t stop.
Media: “Putin threatens Ukrainian power plants!”
I remember Usama bin Laden mentioning his time in Sweden with his family, when he said al-Qaeda was no threat to countries like Sweden, and the media went: “bin Laden mentions Sweden!” with a picture of an angry bin Laden.
It’s really not that unusual for government officials, Russian and non-Russian, to make “nice [insert thing] you got there, be a shame if anything happened to it” statements.
They are not kidding when they say that. We must not dismiss it, when we ourselves are behaving in crazy ways.
Putin has been careful to avoid escalation against those who attack Russia.
However, there are many inside Russia who chafe at his restraint. An attack on a nuclear plant might finally push Russia over that line.
That is of course why it is being done, by warmongering fools in the West.
However, it is Britain that might have one of its nuclear plants melt down in response. Russia could do that easily enough, if it set about to do it. The vulnerability of nuclear plants to deliberate international attacks has long been a serious concern about nuclear power. Now, they play with fire. How will the British people feel about that? Nationaistic rah rah go to war? Or quite differently about their own criminal government?
I very much doubt that Russia and its president would even consider lowering themselves to acts of revenge or our Greatest of the Great British ways of covertly sponsoring acts of terror all over the globe under the guise of supporting “freedom & democracy” claptrap. However, they are unlikely to forgive or forget the incident or deliberately provocative “completely unprovoked” nonsense constantly regurgitated by the bbc and our current not outstandingly intelligent pm. As for the Great British Public – it has been completely subjugated in recent years by a succession of mentally deranged oddities preoccupied with further bankrupting of the Great British economy in preparation for a full-scale takeover by the US corporate monsters – from the good for absolutely nothing apart from deliberately alienating Russia Theresa May via Boris the murderous slug Johnson to the current Thunderbirds Are Go muppet Sunak. Jeremy Corbyn, of whom Chomsky said, “if Corbyn had been elected, Britain would be pursuing a much more sane course”represented real hope, but he was ruthlessly eliminated by blairites and associated vermin as a “racist”, to the general British public’s complete and total astonishment. So it is self-inflicted “glory” (of strangely Ukrainian variety) without hope for us Brits these days. Period.
“Putin did not offer any evidence for the accusation and did not name what nuclear power plant the saboteurs planned to target but insisted he was telling the truth. “The leadership of British intelligence agencies knows that I am telling the truth,” he said.”
He is definitely telling the truth because he and the Kremlin never lie. Never.
“Western involvement in attacks inside Russia, whether real or perceived, risks a major escalation as Moscow could retaliate by targeting NATO.”
Did Putin risk a major escalation with the West when he entered the Syrian war?
Putin prevented Syria from becoming another Libya when he accepted their invitation to assist… That’s the opposite of “escalation”.
Wasn’t the West invited to assist Ukraine to prevent another Chechnya? Not only were they invited, they were signatories of the Budapest Agreement that included a provision that if one of the other signatories violated the agreement, the other parties were allowed to provide military assistance to help protect its sovereignty.
The US blew up the Budapest Agreement when the staged a putsch in Kiev.
Invitations from Nazi factions in someone else’s civil war should be round filed in the nearest receptacle.
No, that’s another Kremlin BS line you guys keep on repeating. Since when, a coup by the people because their leader betrayed them, takes them out of the world stage, or invalids any territorial agreement for that matter?
Do coups in Africa remove those countries from the world map and designates them as free game for any superior country to take their land?
But it wasn’t a coup by the people.. It was a coup by a pack of animals called Bandarists or Nazis if you prefer… We ALL just know how you prefer Nazis to damn near anything! 😂
And, by invitation.
Just like the West was invited to help Ukraine.
Thanks for the reminder.
No, the US provoked the larger Ukraine War when Ukraine itself was trying to make peace. Very different.
Maybe Russia has “partners” in Ukraine like the US has “partners” in Syria. Only difference is Russia’s partners in Ukraine are ethnic Russians and live next door while the US partners in Syria are warring with each other and are on the other side of the world.
“the Syrian war” consists of uncle sam’s terrorists trying to oust the legitimate Syrian leader Assad, all the while uncle sam is overtly stealing Syrian oil literally as soon as it comes out of the ground.
Stealing oil?
What a liar. At least do some research before you step on your Dik.
That’s a new Kremlin line and one of the hottest lines in town right now so go ahead and keep on repeating it.
Yes fool.
Stealing oil.
Just like ISIS did in Iraq.
Running truck convoys to Turkey.
Care to share any proof?
The US government has admitted it. Demands for proof of such things are simple denial of reality by those who excuse crimes and hide culpabity.
You do realize the US has military bases in Syria, right?
Even Mr. Bernie Sanders said that Assad needed to be deposed. They are all in on it. We are really f*cked.
“Putin Accuses UK of Being Behind Plot Against Russian Nuclear Plant The Russian leader claimed a group of saboteurs were detained and said they were trained by the British”
Reciprocal actions against the UK are in order!
How true is it? 50/50.