Russia’s Federal Safety Service (FSB) stated on Thursday that Britain’s Particular Boat Service had been working in Ukraine and serving to Ukrainian forces perform tried operations in opposition to Russian forces.
The Ukraine battle has triggered the deepest disaster in Moscow’s relations with the West for the reason that 1962 Cuban Missile Disaster. President Vladimir Putin has stated that NATO army personnel are current already in Ukraine. The US and key European allies have stated they haven’t any plans to ship floor troops to Ukraine.
The FSB, the primary successor to the Soviet-era KGB, stated it had foiled a plan by British particular forces to land Ukrainian sabotage troopers on the Tendrov Break up, a sandbar within the Black Sea. It stated it had captured a senior Ukrainian naval particular forces soldier, and gave his title and date of beginning.
Direct involvement by the UK in battle
The FSB stated the Ukrainian particular forces unit was “supervised by a unit of the Particular Boat Service (SBS) which signifies the direct involvement of Britain within the battle.”
A spokesperson for Britain’s Protection Ministry had no quick response to a Reuters request for remark.
The SBS is a particular forces regiment of the British navy that traces its historical past to the early days of World Struggle Two.
The SBS has served in a number of the largest conflicts of the previous 70 years together with the Korean Struggle, Northern Eire, the Falklands Struggle, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq.
