{"id":39134,"date":"2023-10-11T12:42:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T12:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miamiheatnation.com\/?p=39134"},"modified":"2023-10-11T12:42:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T12:42:42","slug":"putin-spymaster-accuses-britain-of-training-ukrainians-for-nuclear-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miamiheatnation.com\/world-news\/putin-spymaster-accuses-britain-of-training-ukrainians-for-nuclear-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin spymaster accuses Britain of ‘training Ukrainians for nuclear terrorism’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    Britain is training Ukraine for acts of \u201cnuclear terrorism\u201d, the head of Russia's secret service has claimed.<\/p>\n

    Alexander Bortnikov, Russia's 71-year-old spymaster, has boldly told a meeting of the Council of Heads of Security Agencies and Special Services in Baku, Azerbaijan, that they have evidence to prove it. He said: \u201cIn August of this year, the FSB detained members of a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group.<\/p>\n

    \u201cDuring operational and investigative measures, it was established that the training of saboteurs and the planning of their operations were carried out by members of the special forces of the British armed forces. Such actions of Ukrainian military intelligence and its British mentors should be qualified as nuclear terrorism.\u201d\u200c<\/p>\n

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    He claimed, although failed to show proof, that the nuclear plants in Kursk and Smolensk were earmarked for attack.<\/p>\n

    The Daily Star has reached out to the FCDO for a comment.<\/p>\n

    The claim comes as Russia 's State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin claimed that Russia is now considering revoking the country's ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treat, which was adopted by the UN in 1996. That claim comes off the back of a speech President Vladimir Putin made on October 5, where he talked about the two reasons that could cause him to give the go-ahead to use nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

    \u201cThe first is the use of nuclear weapons against us, which would entail a so-called retaliatory strike,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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