Moscow:
Moscow will “in the near future” call on the British ambassador to hand over “proof” of his claim that the UK helped orchestrate an attack on Russia’s Black Sea fleet in Crimea, the Foreign Office said on Wednesday.
Russia has alleged that British “specialists” helped Kiev launch a drone strike against the fleet in Moscow-annexed Crimea over the weekend.
Russia has also accused London of being behind the September explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
The Russian authorities have so far provided no evidence to substantiate their claims.
“The British ambassador will be summoned and given the appropriate materials,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, adding that the meeting would take place “in the near future”.
“The base material will be handed over to the UK side as evidence and also shown to the general public,” she added.
The British Ambassador to Russia is Deborah Bronnert.
Zakharova said Moscow will publish the “materials” after meeting the ambassador.
On Saturday, the Russian army said Ukraine had launched the drones on its fleet “led by British specialists in the city of Ochakiv” in southern Ukraine.
Moscow added that “according to our information” the same British unit had “participated in the planning” of September explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea.
The UK says these are “false claims on an epic scale”.
Relations between London and Moscow have been deteriorating for years and Russia considers Britain – a staunch Ukrainian – one of the most hostile Western countries.
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