The British do Russia - again (this is "real politics")

Editor's note: How do files get leaked? Maybe they aren't "leaked" but is part of real politics between Russia and Britain? The great sea power Britain in its 200 year long war against the great land power Russia continues in the Black Sea. The files are leaked so Russia can prepare for attacks on the Kerch Bridge? From historical records "22,182 British soldiers died" (many from sickness and disease) during the Crimean War (1853-1856). Western historical propaganda sources against Russia claim over 450,000 Russian soldiers died during the Crimean War. And so we come to Ukraine...
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Secret British plans to 'defeat entire Russian Black Fleet' revealed in leaks

By Kit Klarenberg | June 11, 2025

Leaked files reviewed by The Grayzone expose the covert war waged by British intelligence against Russia in the Black Sea, outlining Ukrainian "honey trap" plots along with blueprints for blowing up the Kerch Bridge.

Sensitive documents reviewed by The Grayzone indicate that the United Kingdom is the central architect behind Ukrainian military operations targeting Russia's Black Sea Fleet. Among other explosive findings, the files reveal high-ranking British military and intelligence figures drew up detailed plans to "maximize attrition of [Moscow's] Black Sea Fleet," plotted to blow up the Kerch Bridge connecting Crimea to mainland Russia with fertilizer bombs, and even devised blueprints for a series of submersibles which would allow Ukrainian divers to plant mines on Russian ships and infrastructure.

Further machinations include an explicit "honey trap" plan which called for establishing a brothel secretly run by British intelligence in Crimea. There, Russian-speaking female Ukrainian agents would ply "drunken sailors" from the Russian navy for information.

The schemes were assembled by Project Alchemy, a secret British military planning cell whose existence was first exposed by The Grayzone.

Alchemy's intelligence-aligned director, Dominic Morris, once embedded with British special forces in Afghanistan while serving as a "political officer" for the UK embassy. The first of the relevant files was sent on April 14, 2022 — the same day Ukraine achieved its most spectacular naval success of the war when it sank Russia’s flagship in the region, the Moskva.

That feat was cheered by Western media, with the New York Times heralding the ship's destruction as a "signal triumph – a display of Ukrainian skill and Russian ineptitude." As the previously-unpublished files show, admirers of the operation also included Project Alchemy's Dominic Morris, who saw an opportunity to "defeat the entire Russian Black Sea Fleet" and immediately began crafting plans to sink the rest of Moscow's warships.

The destruction of the Moskva purportedly both surprised and panicked the Biden administration, as they apparently didn’t believe Ukraine possessed missiles capable of striking such a target and, according to one mainstream report, "hadn’t intended to enable the Ukrainians to attack such a potent symbol of Russian power.” But the attack apparently convinced the White House and Pentagon to double down on their military support for Kiev – and as the documents show, it had the same effect across the pond.

In response to an April 23, 2022 brief authored by a fellow cell member on the importance of Western powers supporting Ukrainian "land" operations, Morris declared “the sinking of Moskva" meant Kiev should focus predominantly on "maritime" operations instead. After complaining that "apart from a little bit of moving tanks and planes around a peaceful Europe," NATO was "not doing any fighting," Morris wrote that he saw a chance for the UK to eliminate every Russian vessel in the region without even going to war.

"You could defeat the entire Russian Black Sea Fleet" with "subthreshold options," he wrote, referring to gray zone tactics which the British military has officially defined as "all activity up to, but not crossing, the legal definition of armed conflict." Morris specifically proposed "commando raids" as "a fab subthreshold activity that will scare the shit out of" Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Please go to The Grayzone to continue reading about Britain's commercial proxy war on Russia.