Russia summons British ambassador for attack on her fleet in Sevastopol

Russia will shortly summon the British ambassador, Deborah Bronnert, to present alleged evidence of the involvement of the United Kingdom in the Ukrainian attack last Saturday against the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol and the act of sabotage against the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Foreign Affairs reported today .

“Of course, there is no doubt that the British intelligence services are involved in the terrorist attack on the Black Sea Fleet base in Sevastopol on October 29,” Foreign spokeswoman María Zajárova pointed out at her weekly press conference.

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He indicated that this will not go unanswered, as the Kremlin and Russian diplomacy already advanced in the UN Security Council this week.

“And of course, as I said, the British ambassador will be summoned, and she will be provided with the relevant material. And I promise you that the same materials, more or less, that will be given as evidence to the British side, will also be known to the general public., Zakharova stated.

The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, He maintained the day before that the Russian security services have information that “indicates that British military consultants supervised and coordinated the attack on the Sevastopol Bay” with Ukrainian naval drones that damaged a Russian minesweeper.

There is also information “that the UK is involved in the act of sabotage or, as we say in Russia, the terrorist attack against critical energy infrastructure, which is not a Russian infrastructure, but an international one”he added about the leaks detected in the gas pipelines North Stream Y Nord Stream 2.

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The President of Russia, Vladimir Putinindicated at a press conference on Monday that Gazprom’s CEO, Alexei Miller, informed him of the analysis carried out by the gas consortium with a Nord Stream AG company ship in the area of ​​the incident.

According to the head of the Kremlin, there were two craters between 3 and 5 meters deep in the bed of the Nord Stream.

“The explosion tore out a 40-meter section of pipe and separated the ends of the gas pipeline by 259 meters. The ripped piece of pipe bent 90 degrees and was ejected a distance of 40 meters into Nord Stream 2, which was also apparently damaged as a result of this explosion, shrapnel and debris from the pipe.” he explained.

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According to Russia, in the Nord Stream both threads were damaged, while in the Nord Stream 2 only one.

Both gas pipelines were inactive but full of gas at the time of the explosion, the first due to an oil leak allegedly detected in the only compressor station that was still operating on Russian territory and the second due to Germany’s refusal to grant certification even before the start of Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine.

Source: Elcomercio

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