Putin Threatens With Strikes Against Ukrainian NPPs

He is blaming the British intelligence services.

“The West is provoking Russia to attack nuclear power plants in Ukraine,” Putin said at the Eastern Economic Forum on Tuesday.

He was talking about British intelligence services. According to him, they were training Ukrainian saboteurs and planning an attack on a nuclear power plant in Russia.

“Do they even understand what they are playing with? Are they provoking us to take some kind of retaliatory action against Ukrainian nuclear facilities and power plants?” TASS quotes Putin.

According to Putin, information about the participation of British instructors was obtained during interrogations of “saboteurs of the Ukrainian special services” who were captured by the FSB while trying to “cause damage” to one of the Russian nuclear power plants.

“I assure you that this is the complete, absolute, pure truth of what I just said,” Putin assured. “We have these ‘gavriks’ [prisoners of war - Ed.] sitting with us and giving evidence.”

According to Putin, his words could cause “another howl about nuclear threats and nuclear blackmail.” “The leadership of the British intelligence services knows that I am telling the truth. But I'm not sure whether the British leadership understands this. Such things are really worrying,” Putin added.