BBC: HMS Defender: Russia's Putin accuses UK and US of military provocation
Russia's Vladimir Putin has accused the UK and US military of staging a "complex provocation," after British warship HMS Defender sailed near the coast of Russian-annexed Crimea.
While there was no risk of starting World War Three, he said, he believed it was part of an attempt to set up military bases in or near Ukraine.
President Putin alleged a US spy plane was part of the operation too. The Royal Navy rejected the Russian account of what happened on 23 June.
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WNU Editor: This is what I said last week .... Russia is also busy chasing away US spy planes .... Russian Su-30SM fighter intercepts US spy plane over Okhotsk Sea (TASS). Sounds like this was a coordinated U.S. - U.K. - NATO operation.
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