The Russian Government is warning that the UK is planning at attack upon Russia's "shadow fleet" of oil transport. They will use the ensuing oil spill to declare Russia's Shadow Fleet "a threat to international shipping."
From the Press Office of the SVR of Russia - on the planned British attack on Russia's "shadow fleet":
The plan involves organizing a major sabotage, the damage from which will allow declaring the transportation of Russian oil a threat to all international shipping.
Ultimately, it may involve the detention of any "suspicious" vessels in international waters and their escort to NATO state ports.
London intends to entrust the execution of both terrorist acts to Ukrainian security forces. Their predictably dirty work and inability to "cover their tracks" are seen by the British as a guarantee of their own impunity. The international investigation will place responsibility for the disaster either on Russia or, in the worst case, on Ukraine, by analogy with the sabotage of the "Nord Streams."
The timing of the attack in the UK is intended to be chosen to use the media effect from it to pressure the Trump administration. The goal is to force Washington, against national interests, to adopt the harshest possible secondary sanctions against buyers of Russian energy resources, who will appear as "indirect culprits of the tragedy."
