{"id":34029,"date":"2026-08-27T11:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/34029\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:58:12","slug":"russia-threatens-uk-military-targets-while-kremlin-denies-intent-to-attack-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/34029\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia threatens UK military targets while Kremlin denies intent to attack NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that Russia could strike British military targets inside and outside Ukraine in response to Ukrainian strikes on Russia using British missiles.<\/p>\n

Zakharova called on Britain to back off what she called London’s hostile stance on Ukraine<\/a>, which she said risked taking the conflict to an entirely new level.<\/p>\n

She had told the same Moscow news briefing earlier that Britain<\/a> and France were “playing with fire” by supplying sensitive missile technology to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Britain announced on Monday it would allow Kyiv access to classified technology to start its own production of Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles, capable of carrying out strikes deep within Russia<\/a>. France has already agreed to license the technology for the European missile.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin dismissed on Thursday US media reports that Russia could attack a NATO member state and that the purpose of CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s<\/a> visit to Moscow this week had been to warn Moscow against such a move.<\/p>\n

Asked to comment on the reports, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “A lot of this kind of scare-story material is being published right now. Of course, it has nothing to do with reality and nothing to do with the intentions of the Russian Federation.”<\/p>\n

Earlier on Thursday, the head of Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service said he held a “working-level meeting” with Ratcliffe and that they discussed unspecified, sensitive matters within the remit of their respective intelligence services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that Russia could strike British military targets inside and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2905,64,66,25,26,287,33],"class_list":["post-34029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-cia","tag-kremlin","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-russia-war","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}