Russia to Deliver Demarche to UK Over Engagement in Training Ukrainian Saboteurs
09:17 13.09.2023 (Updated: 09:18 13.09.2023)
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VLADIVOSTOK (Sputnik) - On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed that members of a Ukrainian sabotage group, which aimed to blow up power lines in Russia and were captured, have admitted that they were trained by the instructors from the United Kingdom.
Russia will deliver a demarche to the United Kingdom in connection with the information that the island country was engaged in training Ukrainian sabotage groups that planned attacks in Russia, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an interview with Sputnik.
"Yes, of course, [Russia] will [deliver a demarche], as we did before, continuously, and conveyed to London both through open channels, making it public, and through diplomatic channels, the inadmissibility of participation in such activities," Zakharova said on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Vladivostok.
On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that members of a Ukrainian sabotage group, which aimed to blow up power lines in Russia and were captured, have admitted that they were trained by the instructors from the United Kingdom.
“During the clash, the FSB [Russia’s Federal Security Service] captured several people, [some] were destroyed, the rest were taken prisoner, it turned out that this was a sabotage group of the Ukrainian special services. Interrogations are ongoing, which show that their task was to cause damage to one of our nuclear power plants, to blow up power lines in order to ultimately disrupt the operation of the power plant. This is not their first attempt,” Putin said at the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF).
Putin also said that he is not ruling out that the UK does not know what their intelligence services are doing in Ukraine.
“Do they even understand what they are playing with or not? Why are they provoking us to take some kind of retaliatory action against Ukrainian nuclear facilities, nuclear power plants?” Putin said.