LONDON, June 25. /TASS/. The accusations made against Moscow in Britain’s updated National Security Strategy published on June 24 are false, the Russian embassy said in a statement obtained by TASS.
"The Cabinet of Keir Starmer has again decided to exploit an important issue to advance its out-of-touch and purely opportunistic agenda. The imaginary risks allegedly emanating from Russia are at the heart of the strategy. This is accompanied by an openly offensive rhetoric against our country. Here we have to repeat that such accusations are empty and false. Russia has not threatened and does not threaten Britain and its people," the diplomatic mission said.
The embassy noted that throughout the "long and diverse history" of relations between the two countries, "it was London that on a number of occasions acted as the instigator of conflicts and as the generator of strategic provocations against" Russia. "It is enough to recall Winston Churchill's plan to attack the Soviet Union at the end of World War II, designated as Operation Unthinkable," the embassy said.
It said that London's current approach is at odds with the real state of affairs in the modern world, where there are indeed "many threats, mainly of a complex cross-border nature." It is well known that they can be dealt with only through the joint efforts of the international community. Among such challenges in relation to the UK, there are those that arose with the connivance of successive governments of the country, both intentionally and thoughtlessly, the embassy said.
