Russian ambassador claims UK involved in drone attack on Black Sea fleet

Andrei Kelin, Russia's ambassador to the UK, cited the ‘participation of British specialists’ in the drone attack. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters

The Russian ambassador to the UK has claimed UK special forces were involved in a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow’s Black Sea fleet.

Andrei Kelin told Sky News: “We perfectly know about [the] participation of British specialists in [the] training, preparation and execution of violence against the Russian infrastructure and the Russian fleet in the Black Sea. We know that it has been done.”