If there is one thing Vladimir Putin would change about the way his war on Ukraine has gone this year, it would be Kyiv’s growing ability to hit targets deep inside Russia, often with devastating effect.
Ukraine’s long-range drone strikes have done something Putin never wanted, and probably never foresaw. They have brought the “special military operation” (remember, in Russia you’re still not officially allowed to call this war a war) to the Russian home front.
Drones are destroying and disrupting oil infrastructure and online retail; forcing the switching off, for security reasons, of mobile networks and Wi-Fi in a tech-savvy society that has become used to living on phones.
Reports that British drones were among those used to hit Russian targets hundreds of kilometres from the front have now drawn a furious response from the Russian Embassy in London. In a statement posted on its Telegram channel, Moscow’s diplomatic mission to the UK accused London of being “an accomplice and co-perpetrator of the bloody crimes and terrorist attacks committed by Ukrainian neo-Nazis”.
The language is significant. If Putin frequently referred to Ukrainians as “Nazis” early in the full-scale invasion, that language was gradually heard less frequently. Now, it’s back — and Britain is being portrayed as the willing accomplice of a government characterised as such.
So what could happen? We should not worry that Russian tanks will be rolling down our high streets in the coming weeks. There may, though, be attempts to intimidate, or provoke.
The last couple of years have seen acts of arson, including one on a warehouse in east London. The investigation that led to the conviction of those responsible concluded that the Russian mercenary group Wagner had ordered the attack.
There was also an arson attack on a property linked to the then-prime minister Sir Keir Starmer. The Russian embassy denied that Moscow was involved in any way, insisting Russia posed “no threat to the United Kingdom or its people and harbours no aggressive intentions towards Britain”.
That is less convincing in the light of this new statement, which warns that, “London’s actions will inevitably carry consequences.”
“The deeper its involvement in the conflict…. the higher the price it will pay,” the embassy said.
Aside from arson in the capital, there has also been confrontation at sea. In June, a Russian frigate fired a warning shot at a yacht it apparently felt had sailed too close in the Channel. There could be attempts to test defences by sending warplanes into UK airspace, or submarines close to UK shores. Damage to undersea cables could disrupt internet traffic; drones could disrupt air traffic, as in Copenhagen in September 2025. The Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, then stopped short of blaming Russia directly, but did not rule it out, either.
It is worth remembering that in March 2025, Russia’s foreign intelligence service, known by its initials SVR, declared the UK “the main global warmonger”. Britain officially became Russia’s public enemy number one.
The reason for this goes beyond the Kremlin’s fury at the UK’s support for Ukraine. Moscow has long been angered by Western support for Ukraine, without which Putin might now have achieved his aims of imperial conquest.
But the Trump administration’s willingness to engage with Putin, not least at a summit in Alaska last August, means Moscow does not want to alienate or annoy a president it still feels might help it to end the war on terms it can sell to an increasingly wary and weary public. Far better to hit out at Britain.
As if to confirm this, the post that followed the one criticising the UK on the embassy’s Telegram channel came from the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, praising the US First Lady, Melania Trump, for her “support” reuniting children caught up in the conflict with their families.
The Russian intelligence service statement last year declaring Britain was a warmonger drew on a long tradition of Russian suspicion of the UK’s actions on the global stage. British support for the Bolsheviks’ enemies after the revolution of 1917 was never forgotten and never forgiven, for the rest of the last century.
This latest Russian rhetorical strike is a reminder that this war — however and whenever it ends — will continue to cast a long shadow of mutual suspicion over the decades to come.
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