The Russian government on Wednesday accused British experts of involvement in a deadly Ukrainian attack on the Russian city of Bryansk, which used British Storm Shadow missiles, and said it would take the United Kingdom’s role “into consideration”.
The governor of the Bryansk region stated that Tuesday’s offensive (10) killed at least six civilians and injured 37, in what he called “with missiles”, without specifying the target.
Ukraine said it had hit a major missile components factory. Moscow accused the country of deliberately targeting civilians.
Asked by Reuters news agency about a possible military response to the use of British missiles against Russian sovereign territory, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia would take into account the
“It is obvious that launching these missiles would be impossible without British experts,” Peskov told reporters. “We are aware of this, we know it very well and naturally we take it into account.”
“To prevent such barbaric actions by the Kiev regime from continuing, a special military operation is being conducted,” he said, adding that one of the objectives of the operation is to demilitarize Ukraine.
There was no immediate comment from London, although Russia has repeatedly said Kiev needs Western-supplied technical expertise, target location data and satellite imagery to launch advanced missiles into Russian territory.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the country attacked one of the most important militaries in Bryansk, which produces electronic components for Russian missiles.
The spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, declared that the attack was premeditated and directed against civilians, and challenged the UN (United Nations) to evaluate what happened.
