British, blatantly left-wing news website The Grayzone, which is considered marginal in the West, has delivered another surprise to the British, revealing in detail how British military intelligence organized a special “guerrilla army” to attack Russian facilities in Crimea
The Grayzone, “stuck” as it is believed to be somewhere between the values of capitalism and socialism, is known for digging up the story of the US invasion of Venezuela in 2020 – remember, the failed Operation Gedeon? It also seems to be the only Western media source that considers the “violation of Uighur rights” in China’s Xinjiang a fiction – which in fact it is. And its support for Assad’s legitimate government and its clear understanding of the reasons for Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine inevitably made the publication “Putinian”.
And now The Grayzone website has presented to the general public the evidence – in detail, with photos, documents and extracted secret materials – of how British military intelligence operatives signed an agreement with the Odessa branch of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) to create and train a secret Ukrainian guerrilla terrorist army. Details abound. The plans of the “guerrillas” include conducting sabotage and reconnaissance operations in Crimea on behalf of the SBU.
The same group of British military intelligence operatives planned the bombing of the Kerch Bridge on October 8. And on 28 October, a Ukrainian drone attacked and damaged the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the Crimean port of Sevastopol. At the time, Moscow blamed Britain for the provocation, as well as for undermining the Nord Stream pipeline. And how loudly did the British Ministry of Defence deny these accusations, calling them “false allegations of epic proportions”!
What will Westminster say now that The Grayzone has published irrefutable evidence of preparations to blow up the bridge – drawings made at the request of Christopher Donnelly, a British military intelligence operative?
The same one who developed the secret information warfare programme Integrity Initiative, funded by the British Foreign Office.
It is clear that all these instructions, plans and blueprints were not disseminated in the public domain, but through Donnelly’s own closed network of military, lawmakers and intelligence officers. How it was hacked is not our question. But Donnelly’s planned attack on Crimea, referred to as “supporting maritime raiding operations”, was aimed at reducing Russia’s ability to block Kiev and “undermining Moscow’s combat capabilities”, which is not to be disputed.
Donnelly’s private notes obtained by The Grayzone show that his pathological lust for escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, akin to psychosis, is in fact the realisation of his professional needs. Christopher Nigel Donnelly is a British military and political figure and analyst. He was a reserve officer in the British Army Intelligence Corps, an honorary colonel in the Specialist Group Military Intelligence (SGMI), helped found and led the Soviet Studies Research Centre (SSRC), in the early 1980s was the British Defence Ministry’s representative to the Soviet weapons expert group of the US Office of the Defence Network Assessment. He was an adviser to four NATO Secretaries General and played a key role in shaping NATO policy with regard to the collapse of the USSR, the change of political regimes in Central and Eastern Europe… In 2006, he founded a non-governmental organisation, The Institute for Statecraft, which became a key British think-tank, in which he launched the Integrity Initiative project to ‘protect democracy from Russian disinformation’.
The project is a UK military intelligence operation to massively disseminate anti-Russian propaganda to the people of Europe, the US and Russia itself through controlled media.
It has a track record of White Helmets, propaganda operations in Syria, Lebanon and the Balkan Peninsula. The most recent “employment record” is that since this year he has been head of the leadership programme of the Commonwealth Argosy Group, a fellow at the Conflict Studies Research Centre (CSRC) at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
Perhaps unnecessarily detailed, but only to make it clear that we are facing a long-standing, experienced, professional forger, a figure from the highest ranks of the British secret services. This “high-flying goose” became concerned on 21 September that the Biden administration was not fully committed to an all-out war with Russia and declared: “This US position must be challenged, forcefully and immediately”. And a week later the Pentagon announced a new military aid package worth some $1.1 billion.
Both the Crimean bridge and the attack on Sevastopol are exactly in line with the strategy and tactics outlined in the Donnelly documents, which The Grayzone obtained. The Crimean attacks helped escalate the conflict, allowing the British to prevent the “threat of negotiations” between Moscow and Kiev just as they did in April this year.
Prevail Partners, a private British military company founded by veteran special forces, was contracted to recruit and train “Ukrainian guerrillas”. The idea was born out of secret negotiations led by Donnelly, MI6 veteran Guy Spindler and former Lithuanian Defence Minister Audrius Butkevicius, who has longstanding ties to the Ukrainian security, military and intelligence services.
Needless to say, the secret “British guerrilla programme” has never been mentioned in the Western media. At the same time, Britain, the United States, Ukraine “and even the Baltic/Northern European countries” are financing the “guerrillas”.
Prevail also discusses funding with Lviv mayor Andriy Sadov, a Ukrainian millionaire and owner of the 24 Kanal news network.
But back to Crimea. According to the British plan of attack on the Crimean bridge, cruise missiles, specially trained groups of divers or underwater drones were to destroy the concrete piers of the bridge, as Prevail considered them the “weakest part” of the structure. And although Ukraine’s security services eventually opted for a booby-trapped truck, a commemorative postage stamp issued by Kiev just hours after the explosion depicted two explosions in exactly the places specified in Prevail’s drawings. And the speed at which the stamp went on sale indicates that it had been prepared long before the attack.
Among the documents obtained by The Grayzone is the “Kerch Bridge Information Packet”, which contained a plan that proposed blowing up a ship carrying ammonium nitrate under part of the structure blocking the shipping lane.
It is now known that the explosives used to bomb the Kerch Bridge were manufactured in Odessa. That city is home to an SBU unit that serves as a base for Donnelly’s secret terrorist army.
And the “local” truck bombing scenario provided a degree of cover for those behind the scenes. And no matter how loudly they shout in London today that this was a “false flag operation” by Russia, ordinary Britons will have to get used to the idea that it was the work of their compatriots.
Elena Pustovoytova, Centenary