Andrei Kelin: Last News

Russia will do what it can to assist the UK and could "come to the rescue" amid problems linked to rising energy costs.

A decision on whether Russian president Vladimir Putin will attend the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow next month has not been taken yet.

Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!The Ambassador of the Russian Federation has claimed that it will be 'much more difficult' for British warships to pass through Russian waters.The warning comes after Russia claims they fired 'warning shots' and 'dropped bombs in the path' of Britain's HMS Defender as it sailed near Crimea.Ministry of Defence denied Russia's accounts of the incident and claim that "no warning shots were fired" as they carried out an "innocent passage through Ukrainian territorial waters in accordance with international law."But ambassador Andrei Kelin has stressed that the incident with the HMS destroyer was not an "innocent passage," but a demonstrative one, a Russian news network reports.Kelin said:

Russia's Ambassador to the UK has claimed cyber attacks on a controversial constitutional referendum came from the UK.