MOSCOW, April 11. /TASS/. A team of Ukrainian commandos trained by the British Royal Navy carried out an attack on the Tendra Spit in the Kherson Region, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement.
"The activities of the Special Operations Center of the Ukrainian armed forces’ are supervised by the Special Boat Service (SBS), a special forces unit of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy, which points to the UK’s direct involvement in the conflict," the statement reads.
A captured member of the Ukrainian sabotage group, Yevgeny Gorin, born in 1985, "provided detailed information about receiving training in subversive acts at the base of the 5-RIFLES Armored Infantry Battalion, part of the 20th Armored Brigade Combat Team within 3rd Division, which is also known as The Iron Division and is the only division that remains in constant combat readiness in the United Kingdom (Bulford Camp, Wiltshire)," the FSB added.
"He also testified that the Ukrainian armed forces’ Special Operations Center had carried out an act of sabotage against the MSP 17 drill rig (at the Shtormovoye gas field in the Black Sea), developed by British instructors with the goal of seizing the Russian military’s drone tracking systems,'' the statement said. According to Gorin, after attacking the MSP 17 site, Ukrainian saboteurs failed to find the equipment that the British were interested in and the drilling platform’s communication station was blown up.
"That said, efforts to counter the subversive and reconnaissance activities of foreign intelligence agencies have helped uncover evidence of the direct involvement of British special forces (SBS) in planning actions directed against Russia’s security, as well as in training the actual perpetrators in the UK. The evidence was provided by Yevgeny Gorin, a direct participant in the events," the FSB stressed.