Russia’s representative to the UK has expressed concern as Britain is now involved “too deeply” in the situation in Ukraine, putting the NATO ally “up to the stage” of “no return” in respect of a potential clash with Moscow.
The Russian ambassador to the Jury of St. James’s (as the British royal court’s diplomatic officials are formally known) told Sky News that the British government had already been given evidence that now the British military had assisted a Ukrainian drone strike on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet and also was engaged in blowing up the Nord Stream transmission lines to Germany.
Secretary of state Andrey Kelin warned that Britain’s involvement in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict could have dire consequences, calling it “dangerous” because it “escalates the situation.” The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has been raging since at least February 2022, once Russian forces penetrated Ukraine from the north, east, and south.
As far as I’m concerned, it can take us to the point of no return; of course, that’s not quite true. Yelin continued somewhat cryptically, “But anyhow, we should avoid escalation.”
And this should serve as a signal to Britain that it is already too involved in this war. That the situation is becoming worse, and that danger is increasing.
Boris Johnson, his brief successor Liz Truss, and the newly installed Rishi Sunak have taken one of the most aggressive stances of any NATO member towards Russia, placing the UK closer to Poland, which has delivered tanks to Ukraine, than Turkey, which has kept its ties with Russia more or less intact and even sought to take edge of its allies’ sanctions war against Russia to strengthen its own position.
Britain has helped the Eastern European country Ukraine in several ways, including giving it with money and military equipment and training Ukrainian troops, sometimes even on British soil.
British government spokesman maintains that Russia’s accusations of British involvement in the Nord Stream bombings and the Black Sea Fleet drone attack are false and “definitely intended to divert attention from Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine; Russia’s losses on the battleground and its attacks on civilian communities and power infrastructure without any regard for international treaties and the loss of innocent life.”
It is no mystery that Great Britain has taken a public lead in our support to Ukraine — this has been continuing since Russia’s illegitimate invasion of Crimea in 2014, but we have no plans to provide a running commentary on these charges,” the spokesperson said.
Last month, in what has been called the “most threatening direct encounter” between Russian and British forces so far in the war, a Russian fighter jet released a missile near a Royal Air Force (RAF) Rivet Joint monitoring aircraft flying over the Black Sea. This “malfunction,” as it was called, was widely understood to be a warning for Great Britain to maintain a safe distance from the warzone.