Ukrainian ‘terrorism’ impossible without Western support – Kremlin
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.
At the ‘Russian Energy Week’ (REW) forum in Moscow, Peskov was asked to comment on Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Aleksandr Bortnikov’s claims that British operatives were involved in Ukrainian strikes on Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) assets.
The complexity of the Kiev regime’s “acts of terrorism against critical energy infrastructure” indicates “that the Ukrainians themselves couldn’t have carried them out,” Peskov said.
“This couldn’t have been done without the participation of Western intelligence agencies. In this case, it was the British. That’s obvious,” he added.
At a meeting of security chiefs in Uzbekistan on Thursday, Bortnikov alleged that operatives from the UK’s 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.
He also warned that British and Ukrainian forces are planning to sabotage the TurkStream pipeline, which exports natural gas from Russia to Türkiye and several southern European nations.
The 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’s targeted assassinations on Russian soil.
