Sergei Naryshkin, the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Services (SVR), warns about the possibility of a “staged torpedo attack” under a “Russian flag” on a ship in the Baltic Sea. This, he says, is being organized by Ukraine and Britain, and Ukraine has already handed over Soviet/Russian-made torpedoes to the British. Some of them are supposed to explode at a safe distance, and one is supposed to remain unexploded as “proof” of Russia’s aggression. Another option, he said, is the “accidental” discovery in the Baltic of Russian-made moored mines, allegedly intended for sabotage on international routes.
In a statement issued on June 16, the agency described growing coordination between Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) and its military intelligence (HUR) with British intelligence, which it said is due to Kiev’s “mounting battlefield setbacks and deepening moral exhaustion.”
