Russia fumes it will ‘sink Royal Navy ships’ as ‘incompetent’ Starmer to spark revolution | World | News
Sir Keir Starmer is “incompetent” and will be ousted in a “revolution”, a mouthpiece of the Kremlin has said. It comes after the UK Prime Minister announced that the British military will be able to board shadow fleet vessels transiting UK waters, saying Britain is stepping up its pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin, sparking verbal attacks from Moscow’s propagandists.
Putin’s special envoy and fixer Kirill Dmitriev has since claimed the Prime Minister is making his demise “inevitable” with constant wrong decisions. “Instead of resigning with dignity two months ago, the incompetent Starmer may leave as a result of a British revolution, which he himself is making inevitable with his constantly erroneous decisions. Remember this post,” the Russian wrote on X. Dmitriev heads the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) – the country’s sovereign wealth fund – and is close to Putin and his increasingly powerful daughter Katerina Tikhonova, 39, a former acrobatic dancer with rising control over science and technology in Moscow.
Kyiv-born Dmitriev – educated at Stanford University and Harvard Business School – is used by Putin as a trusted negotiator with the US.
He is deployed as a Putin mouthpiece by the regime which is targeting Britain with ferocity over its unstinting support for Ukraine in the war against Russia.
Moscow this week announced the expulsion of a British diplomat over allegations of espionage. Britain rejected the accusations as groundless.
The prediction of Sir Keir being ousted comes after Russian propagandists hit out at him over his announcement that Britain will halt, board and detain Putin’s shadow fleet vessels fuelling his war machine.
The PM said the UK’s special forces have been given the go-ahead to intercept and hold vessels, often used to transport sanctions-busting oil via the English Channel.
In response, Russia has threatened to “sink” Royal Navy warships. Moscow said the impounding of their vessels in this way aould be “piracy” with Russian state TV – which parrots Kremlin orders – warning of missile strikes.
“Russia must take responsibility for combating piracy, and so will be forced to sink British Royal Navy ships involved in piracy and the hijacking of commercial vessels,” Putin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov said.
“We must warn them that we will destroy them by all possible means, not by deploying our ships to the area. Aircraft and missiles may be used. But we are obliged to combat global piracy.”
Sarcastically, he alluded to the Royal Navy’s shrunken presence in the world’s seaways, referring to a destroyer now patrolling off Cyprus and one of two aircraft carriers.
He told viewers: “I wonder, after we sink the first two British ships, how many will they have left?” Historian Andrey Sidorov told him: “First the Dragon, then the Prince of Wales, and that’s it.”
Solovyov said: “That’s the point, not many, right? So, Britain doesn’t rule the seas [any more]. Relax, your time is up.”
