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August 25, 2026 / 11:18 AM EDT
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Kyiv — Russia's former Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Fedorov warned Monday that factories in Britain producing drones for Ukraine could be targeted by "semi-military" or "unknown" forces in response to the U.K.'s expanding military support for Kyiv.Fedorov told the BBC's Newsnight show on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was under pressure from public opinion and the Russian media to take action against Britain."Something might happen with enterprises, with factories, which are producing drones for Ukraine," he told the BBC. "They could be attacked — not by Russia, but from unknown sources."He said he could not "exclude 100% that there might be some semi-military" action, noting the possibility of cyberattacks — also by "unknown sources, not official level, of course" — or unspecified political measures against Britain.His comments came after an agreement was announced by British Prime Minister Andy Burnham this week, during a visit to Kyiv, that will see the U.K. provide Kyiv with classified technology to manufacture a British/French-designed cruise missile in Ukraine.
