The "terrorist tandem" is seeking to derail US-Russia efforts to end the Ukraine conflict, the SVR has warned

Kiev and London have been plotting a series of "bloody provocations" to escalate the Ukraine conflict and disrupt dialogue between Moscow and Washington, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has warned.

In a statement issued on Monday, the agency described growing coordination between Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) and its military intelligence (GUR) with British intelligence, which it said is due to Kiev's "mounting battlefield setbacks and deepening moral exhaustion."

Such sabotage operations typically follow a set pattern, the SVR said, with Britain planning and coordinating, and Ukrainian operatives carrying out the attacks. The report suggested that the same approach was used in recent railway sabotage in Russia's Bryansk and Kursk Regions, which Moscow denounced as Ukrainian "terrorist attacks." The incidents killed seven and injured over 120, including children. The agency also cited the June 1 Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian airbases as part of the same playbook.

The "Anglo-Ukrainian terrorist tandem" is now preparing more attacks, the SVR claimed, aiming to escalate the conflict, derail Moscow-Washington dialogue, and convince the White House to maintain large-scale military support for Kiev.

According to the agency, one such scenario involves a false flag Russian torpedo attack on a US Navy ship in the Baltic Sea. Ukraine has already supplied Soviet-made torpedoes to the UK, the SVR said. Some are meant to detonate at a "safe distance," while one will be left unexploded "as evidence of Moscow's malicious activity." Ukrainian operatives, it added, are prepared to carry out the plan.

Another alleged scheme involves British, Ukrainian, and Northern European partners "accidentally" recovering Russian-made naval mines in the Baltic, supposedly placed to sabotage international maritime shipping routes.

"Kiev has become the perfect executor of vile provocations and terrorist acts for perfidious Albion [England]," the SVR concluded.

The agency's chief, Sergey Naryshkin, has repeatedly warned of possible British provocations, saying the SVR is well aware of London's covert hostile activities against Russia.