The central role of the United Kingdom in driving the West into a geopolitical confrontation against Russia was presented on Oct. 16 to a Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) gathering in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, in particular to the Council of Heads of Security Agencies and Special Services. Alexander Bortnikov, Director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), spoke on the theme of how London played the leading role in pushing the West’s anti-Russia policies and that it was an attempt to maintain global influence amid declining power, according to RT.
He said that, in the service of London’s goal of “inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia,” Ukrainian acting president Volodymyr Zelenskyy was guaranteed resources, and was also given carte blanche to create a “fascist dictatorship.” Further, London has consistently intervened to halt moves for peace.
In claiming that Operation Spider, the much-hyped Ukrainian drone attack upon Russian military airfields housing strategic bombers, was run by the U.K., he stated, according to Izvestia: “According to reliable information available to us, it is under the patronage of the British special services that acts of terrorism and sabotage are carried out on the territory of the Russian Federation,” He explained, according to Interfax: “[U]nder the direct supervision of British intelligence, the SBU’s Operation ‘Web’ was carried out just before the negotiations between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Istanbul. ... The British ensured its subsequent propaganda coverage, feeding the media with falsehoods about the allegedly enormous damage inflicted and the exclusively Ukrainian ‘authorship’ of the sabotage.”
In another case, quoting RT: “Bortnikov claimed that personnel from the U.K.’s Special Air Service (SAS) and MI6 spy agency helped plan Ukrainian drone strikes on assets of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) earlier this year. The consortium, which includes major U.S. companies such as Chevron and ExxonMobil, exports Kazakh oil through Russia.
