The Federal Security Service (FSB) claims in a statement that the British unit of the special forces of the Royal Navy of Great Britain (SBS-Special Boat Service) has operated in Ukraine and is assisting Ukrainian forces in carrying out operations against Russian forces.
The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet KGB, said it had foiled a plan by British special forces to land Ukrainian soldier saboteurs on Tedrov Split, a beach on the Black Sea. He said he had captured a senior Ukrainian naval special forces soldier and gave his name and date of birth.
The FSB said a Ukrainian special forces unit “was under the supervision of an SBS team, indicating Britain’s direct involvement in the conflict”.
A spokesman for the British Ministry of Defense did not immediately respond to a Reuters request to comment on the matter.
The SBS is a special forces unit of the British Navy, created in the early days of World War II.
SBS has been involved in some of the biggest conflicts of the last 70 years, including the Korean War, Northern Ireland, the Falklands War, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq.
The war in Ukraine has caused the deepest crisis in Moscow’s relations with the West since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. President Vladimir Putin has said that NATO military personnel are already in Ukraine. The US and key European allies have said they have no plans to send ground troops to Ukraine.
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