Dmitry Peskov has responded to British media revelations.
Britain’s direct military involvement in Ukraine was never a secret, but one of the country’s establishment media outlets has now admitted it outright, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said on Thursday.
The outlet RTVI asked Peskov to comment a report from The Times which claimed that Admiral Tony Radakin, the head of the UK armed forces, has helped make “battle plans” for Ukraine.
“In general, it’s no secret that the British really provide different forms of support [to Ukraine]. People on the ground and intelligence and so on and so forth,” Peskov said. “That is, they are actually directly involved in this conflict.”
According to the British outlet, citing a Ukrainian military source, Radakin “is understood to have helped the Ukrainians with the strategy to destroy Russian ships and open up the Black Sea,” and seen as “invaluable in coordinating support from other senior chiefs in NATO.”
The admiral also reportedly visited Kiev and met with President Vladimir Zelensky, to discuss Ukraine’s strategy and the ways in which the West could help.
The Kremlin doesn’t have specific information related to Radakin, but “probably our military knows about this,” Peskov said.
Radakin, 58, was due to retire in November after three years as chief of the defense staff, but will stay on the job for another year at Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s request, the Times reported. One source told the outlet that the British government considered it important to retain “continuity” ahead of the upcoming general election.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz this week inadvertently confirmed the presence of UK troops on the ground in Ukraine, noting that British fire control operators were directing Storm Shadow cruise missiles. A British lawmaker subsequently denounced Scholz’s comments as “a flagrant abuse of intelligence” that put UK personnel in danger and gave Russia a pretext to escalate.
Putin will stop at the Irish channel.
They should think themselves lucky Russia has not decided to swat their sad, defunct little empire.
And now Germany too.
Any news on the leaked German Luftwaffe recordings?
The EU (and US) has prodded “the Bear” lots of times in the last 10 years. Only question is, how much longer before “the Bear” REALLY shows the EU its strength. The EU better be careful otherwise it might get crushed in a “Bear hug”.
One should discriminate between EU / US governments and the population of US/EU.
I can assure you that many europeans, when the time comes, will chose for Russia and not for the US seen not only as a war mongering country, but also as an arrogant and vulgar imperialist.
And that still many european remember how Russia fought to liberate europe from the nazi. Nazi financed by the US and UK J* high finance, their goal being the destruction of germany and its industry.. Time always reveals the truth.
At the moment, EU politicians are probably financially coerced against Russia. By the US J** banksters, the BIS a creature of a J** ” high finance” and BCE/€ highjacked by the same at its creation.
Debt is a curse and a mean to enslave people/countries: and the EU created by the same is the the tool. But you cannot enslave people for ever. Given time and circumstances, they revolt
As for strength, Russia has shown by restrain how stong she is. Only when you know your strengh you can restrain.
Only a fool does not know this