LONDON, November 25. /TASS/. The British authorities have intensified their anti-Russian media campaign in anticipation of the impending failure of the "Ukrainian project," the Russian embassy in the United Kingdom said in a commentary.
"The Russian leadership’s commitment to defend the lawful security interests of our country, backed by the open demonstration of the high efficiency of the country’s strategic deterrence arsenal has produced, as we see, a visible effect on the British establishment. The realization of the impending failure of the ‘Ukrainian project’ London has been staking on in hopes of capitalizing on plans to inflict a ‘strategic defeat’ on our country by proxy is now as clear as ever," the embassy said.
"The unconscious reaction of the British propaganda machine to unpleasant news from the special military operation zone was a frenzied circulation of absolutely absurd anti-Russian allegations in the government-controlled mass media," it noted, citing the story with the flight of unidentified drones over British military bases and ships, alarmist warnings about a Russian cyberthreat looming large over the country, as well as ungrounded details of the quasi-judicial procedures as part of other London’s provocations such as the Skripals case or recent warehouse "arson" as an example.
"The icing on the cake," according to the embassy, were media allegations about untrained Yemeni, Nepalese, and Indian citizens serving in the Russian army.
"These stories is meant to disguise the fact that British mercenaries are fighting on the part of the Ukrainian army in Russia’s territory," the embassy stressed. "Naturally, there is no proof to these allegations, although it looks like local journalists have no interest in it. The irrational hostility to our country is imposed by the local political media mainstream as a dogma people in Great Britain are supposed to take for granted. Although it seems to be quite evident that there is a cause-and-effect link between London’s leading role in the escalation of the armed conflict in Ukraine and the growing feeling of insecurity among the British."
The real goal of "another spiral of London’s anti-Russian campaign" is to try to "cement the loosening pro-Ukrainian consensus amid the evident battlefield successes of the Russian army and changes in the political and electoral landscape in the Western countries," the embassy said, adding that the British defense sector wants to have bigger funding at the expense of infrastructure projects and healthcare system reforms.
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden told a NATO cybersecurity conference earlier in the day that Russia was plotting a large-scale cyberattack on the UK and its energy infrastructure and could hire mercenaries and hacker groups to stage such attacks.