A authorities minister has declined to say if the UK was concerned in a Ukrainian drone strike after the Russian ambassador partially blamed Britain for the assault.
Greater than 100 drones have been used to assault websites inside Russia over the weekend, resulting in greater than 40 warplanes being destroyed.
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Russia’s ambassador factors finger at UK
Andrei Kelin pointed the finger on the UK due to the character of the strike.
“[This] kind of attack involves, of course, provision of very high technology, so-called geospaced data, which only can be done by those who have it in possession. And this is London and Washington,” he informed Hakim.
“I do not consider that America [is involved], that has been denied by President Trump, positively, nevertheless it has not been denied by London.
“We perfectly know how much London is involved, how deeply British forces are involved in working together with Ukraine.”
He mentioned that “we as a government, cross-party actually, are standing foursquare alongside Ukraine as they fight – try to defend themselves – against a brutal, unprovoked and illegal attack and invasion”.
Mr Reed added: “We want there to be peace talks. We want this conflict to end. But it’s quite right that we should support Ukraine.”
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Setting Secretary Steve Reed. Pic: PA
Challenged if this escalation might threat Britain getting sucked into the battle with Russia extra instantly, the cupboard minister responded: “I do know that the people of this country and the government of this country, want to stand alongside Ukraine.
“We want peace to occur in that area, we will not enable Russia to get away with invading any extra nations.”
It comes at a time of escalating tensions in the region, with both Russia and Ukraine upping their attacks. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country’s drone strikes at the weekend “will undoubtedly be in historical past books”.
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New Ukraine drone assault video analysed
The blow is seen as one of the crucial daring of the warfare to date, although the US estimated solely round 10 Russian bombers have been blown up – and Russia mentioned none have been.
In a single day, Russia claimed it downed 174 Ukrainian drones and three cruise missiles throughout the nation.
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In the meantime, Ukrainian authorities mentioned Russia attacked cities and cities throughout Ukraine in a single day.
Mr Zelenskyy mentioned the assault was fashioned of greater than 400 drones and 40 missiles.
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2:37
Trump: Putin will reply to assaults
US President Donald Trump had urged Mr Putin to not retaliate on Thursday. He informed reporters: “I don’t like it, I said don’t do it, you shouldn’t do it, you should stop it.”
In response to the allegations of British involvement, a Downing Road spokesperson mentioned: “We never comment on operational matters at home or abroad.”
