Russia dropped a bombshell late last month when it claimed an attack on its Black Sea Fleet had been carried out with the aid of “British specialists.”
Moscow went on to assert that the same unit of “specialists” had also played a leading role in a September attack on its Nord Stream gas pipeline.
London, for its part, has dismissed Moscow’s assertions as “false claims of an epic scale.”
According to Fereydoun Barkeshli, head of the Vienna Energy Research Group, the UK and Russia have a history of shared animosity in which “finger-pointing is the name of the game.”
“But it’s been several weeks since the pipeline attack,” Barkeshli told The Epoch Times, “and we have yet to see any solid evidence as to who was responsible.”…