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The former British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, with the Ukrainian President, Volodímir Zelensky, on a new visit to Kyiv. / Twitter

'Target London': Russia steps up accusations against UK at a time of internal instability

"Such actions cannot remain as if nothing. Of course, we will evaluate the steps to be taken. There is no doubt about it. It is impossible to act otherwise." These threatening words come from Russia to the United Kingdom to blame London for all the ills. Moscow has been accumulating accusations against the British for, first, launching drone attacks on its fleet in the Black Sea and also for sabotaging the Nord Stream gas pipelines, actions that, yes, are the fault of the Kremlin according to the investigations of the Nordic countries.

The Kremlin spokesman, Dimitri Peskov, was very emphatic in this regard: "We have information that the United Kingdom is related to the act of sabotage or, as we say in Russia, the terrorist attack against critical energy infrastructure, which is not an infrastructure Russian, but an international one.'

The pointing finger. The accusations are not trivial, but they also come at one of the most delicate moments in London's recent history: internal instability, three prime ministers in two months, and a crisis that no leader has so far been able to weather.

Last Saturday the Russian fleet in the Black Sea suffered a series of attacks, specifically in Sevastopol, and the war took another turn with Moscow leaving the grain import agreement reached with Ukraine.

Now Turkey, the eternal mediator, is trying to recover the pact while Moscow focuses on the West and warns that only "a total victory" of its own in the conflict will prevent the world "from a global war." At the same time, Putin's men are not forgetting the blow to the gas pipelines, which, they say, do not count on their involvement.

"The explosion ripped out a 40-meter section of pipe and separated the ends of the pipeline by 259 meters. The ripped-off piece of pipe bent 90 degrees and was ejected a distance of 40 meters into Nord Stream 2, which also at least seen was damaged as a result of this explosion, the splinters and the remains of the pipe," Peskov summarized, while again implicating the United Kingdom. In this sense, Russia considers that "the silence -of the Western allies- is inadmissible" and calls for an investigation "that analyzes everything very closely".

On the other side, London tries to return to stability. Rishi Sunak has just taken office as prime minister with no time to lose and with the shadow of a hoax implicating Russia in the hacking of his predecessor, Liz Truss's mobile. In his calls, according to some media reports, Moscow would have intercepted important information regarding the war in Ukraine.

But Downing Street does not give in to pressure or accusations and maintains its support for Kyiv. So much so that it has approved allocating some seven million euros to strengthen Ukrainian cyber defense against Russia.

Together we will ensure that the Kremlin is defeated in all spheres: land, air, and cyberspace.

"Together we will ensure that the Kremlin is defeated in all spheres: land, air, and cyberspace," the British government said. The United Kingdom, in fact, is one of Ukraine's staunchest allies: Boris Johnson, now out of the spotlight, remains the Western leader who has traveled the most to see Volodimir Zelensky, and the Ukrainian president himself was the first call of Truss when he took office. Sunak continues along the same lines.

And Russia wants to erode that support and also the credibility of a country, the United Kingdom, which already has too many open fronts.