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Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
Sun Jun 28, 2020, 04:38 PM Jun 2020

Has Boris Johnson said anything about the Russia/Taliban/Bounty scandal?

UK troops were also included in the Russian offer.

Maybe I'm jumping the gun, but when I saw "unnamed European intelligence sources" my mind went straight to the MI6. They have a respected Russia Desk and there's a close relationship (as you'd guess) between the CIA and MI6, and both organizations helped each other with the Putin assassination cases in London and the one likely assassination in the US (the victim whose name escapes me at the moment).

Were any UK troops killed in Afghanistan over the time period in question?

Also, is this a big story in the United Kingdom?

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Has Boris Johnson said anything about the Russia/Taliban/Bounty scandal? (Original Post) Mike 03 Jun 2020 OP
Johnson and May are Putin's puppets as well . . Iliyah Jun 2020 #1
Based on what? BannonsLiver Jun 2020 #2
For starters - Lubov Chernukhin $250,000 essme Jun 2020 #3
These stories paint a different picture BannonsLiver Jun 2020 #4
So do these stories JonLP24 Jun 2020 #6
Not that big a story in the UK, though it's getting some mention muriel_volestrangler Jun 2020 #5
Skripal connection. moondust Jun 2020 #7

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
6. So do these stories
Sun Jun 28, 2020, 10:47 PM
Jun 2020

Johnson and May ignored claims Russia had ‘likely hold’ over Trump, ex-spy alleges

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/22/boris-johnson-theres-may-ignored-claims-russia-had-likely-hold-over-donald-trump-ex-spy-christopher-steele-claims?__twitter_impression=true

PM accused of cover-up over report on Russian meddling in UK politics

Fresh evidence has also emerged of attempts by the Kremlin to infiltrate the Conservatives by a senior Russian diplomat suspected of espionage, who spent five years in London cultivating leading Tories including Johnson himself.

It can now be revealed that Sergey Nalobin – who once described the future prime minister as “our good friend” – lives in a Moscow apartment block known as the “FSB house” because it houses so many employees from the Kremlin’s main spy agency.

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In 2014, Lubov Chernukhin – the wife of the former Russian deputy finance minister – paid £160,000 to play tennis with Johnson and David Cameron. The match was the star lot at a Conservative summer party auction. Another guest at the 2013 fundraiser was Vasily Shestakov, Vladimir Putin’s judo partner.

(snip)

Conservative Friends of Russia held its 2012 launch party in the Russian ambassador’s Kensington garden, with about 250 Russian and British guests present, including Tories who went on to play a prominent role in the referendum campaign. One was Matthew Elliott, now chief executive of pro-Brexit group Vote Leave, alongside Dominic Cummings, now the prime minister’s chief strategist.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/04/no-10-blocks-russia-eu-referendum-report-until-after-election

Why won't Johnson release the Russia report?

muriel_volestrangler

(101,145 posts)
5. Not that big a story in the UK, though it's getting some mention
Sun Jun 28, 2020, 08:12 PM
Jun 2020

The biggest international story is still Covid; the top Trump story on the BBC site is now his retweet of the 'White Power' supporter; the top Russia story is their denial of involvement in the Baltic radiation levels; then there's the bounty story. I haven't seen any reaction from British politicians. I'm not sure what the time period was, so hard to say if any UK troops were killed, but it's been rare in recent years.

moondust

(19,917 posts)
7. Skripal connection.
Sun Jun 28, 2020, 11:04 PM
Jun 2020
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The Russian intelligence unit behind the attempted murder in Salisbury of the former double agent Sergei Skripal secretly offered to pay Taliban-linked fighters to kill British and American soldiers in Afghanistan, according to US reports.
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Russia offered bounty to kill UK soldiers
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