On June 26, the Russian Embassy in London slammed the Starmer government’s 2025 national security strategy, released two days earlier, for what it called false accusations against Russia. “The Cabinet of Keir Starmer has again decided to exploit an important issue to advance its out-of-touch and purely opportunistic agenda. The imaginary risks allegedly emanating from Russia are at the heart of the strategy. This is accompanied by an openly offensive rhetoric against our country. Here we have to repeat that such accusations are empty and false. Russia has not threatened and does not threaten Britain and its people,” the diplomatic mission said in a statement.
The embassy noted that throughout the “long and diverse history” of relations between the two countries, “it was London that on a number of occasions acted as the instigator of conflicts and as the generator of strategic provocations against” Russia. “It is enough to recall Winston Churchill’s plan to attack the Soviet Union at the end of World War II, designated as Operation Unthinkable,” the embassy said.
