MOSCOW, April 11. /TASS/. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) jointly with the Defense Ministry has foiled a British-planned landing of Ukrainian sabotage groups on the Tendra Spit in the Kherson Region.

"The FSB together with the Defense Ministry foiled a landing of Ukrainian sabotage groups on the Tendra Spit of the Kherson Region, planned by British special services. The operation was based on timely information obtained by the FSB about the plans of the Ukrainian special operations forces and their British handlers," the FSB public relations center said.

"In the clash, the Ukrainian landing force was destroyed, and a citizen of Ukraine, senior soldier of the 73rd Marine Center of the Ukrainian Army’s special operations forces, Yevgeny Gorin, born on April 18, 1985, was taken prisoner," the FSB said.

"The activity of the said special operations forces center is supervised by the Special Boat Service of Britain’s Royal Marines, which indicates Britain’s direct involvement in the conflict," the CJC said.

The captured commando "provided details of his sabotage training at the base of the 5-RIFLES Armored Infantry Battalion, part of the 20th Brigade of the 3rd Iron Division - the only one on permanent alert in Britain (Bulford Kemp, Wiltshire)."

"He also testified British instructors had planned and the Ukrainian special operations center carried out a sabotage attack against the drilling rig MSP-17 (Shtormovoye field in the Black Sea) in order to seize technical means of flight support for unmanned aerial vehicles of the Russian Armed Forces," the FSB noted. Gorin said the Ukrainian saboteurs had found no equipment of interest to the British while storming the MSP-17 facility. The communication station located on the platform was blown up.

"In the course of measures to counteract the sabotage and reconnaissance activities of foreign intelligence services testimonies were obtained from a serviceman of the Ukrainian special unit, Yevgeny Gorin, a direct participant in the events, proving the direct involvement of British special units in planning operations against the security of Russia, as well as the training of commandos in Britain," the FSB public relations center said.