Sergey Lavrov mocks Great Britain, after the Russian conspiracy accusations regarding the Mihail Kogălniceanu Base. “That empire no longer exists”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Russian media that Britain wants to compensate for its “rather weak military power” by trying to divide and conquer, reports TASS.

The Russian official claims that the British are “going broke economically, and their military power is also rather weak, including their nuclear arsenal, over which they actually do not have full control.”

“But they have to somehow compensate for this, which they do through a traditional English desire to, politely speaking, divide and conquer everywhere,” added Sergey Lavrov.

The foreign minister of Russia, which launched a large-scale offensive against Ukraine in February 2022, accused Britain of imperialist ambitions.

“There was an empire that ruled almost the whole world. That empire no longer exists, and neither does the old England they used to boast about,” Lavrov said.

The FSB claims to have thwarted a plot targeting the Kogălniceanu Base

Sergei Lavrov made the statements as Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed on Tuesday to have foiled a plot by Ukrainian and British spies to persuade Russian pilots to steal a MiG-31 jet equipped with a Kinjal hypersonic missile for $3 million.

According to the RIA Novosit news agency, the FSB said the hijacked plane was to be flown to a NATO air base in Constanța, where it could have been shot down by Romania's air defenses.

The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ridiculed the FSB's claims.

“Soviet espionage novels were not exactly brilliant, being propaganda exercises. The same is true of Russian news invented with spies today. What is real, however, is Russian aggression and the Russian challenges that these stories with planes and spies are trying to cover,” said the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Andrei Țărnea, on the X platform.