British Navy conducts four-day ‘concentrated operation’ against Russian Navy
London, June 26, 2025 – British Navy ships and helicopters have been involved in a four-day concentrated operation to monitor Russian naval activities in the English Channel and the North Sea. According to the Royal Navy’s official website, during the operation, the destroyer HMS Duncan and the patrol ship HMS Mersey worked in tandem to monitor the movements of the Russian corvette Boyka as it sailed east through the English Channel. In addition, the British patrol ship HMS Trent and Wildcat helicopters accompanied the Russian Navy frigate Admiral Grigorovich on its way to the Gibraltar area, the English Channel and the North Sea.
Using sensors and radar, the British ships tracked the Russian Navy frigate’s route and informed their command of its movements. It is reported that the British patrol ship Mersey is participating in such an operation for the fifth time. The British Deputy Defense Minister Luke Pollard complained that Russian warships are increasingly passing through the English Channel and promised that every time they do, they will be monitored by Royal Navy ships. The biggest problem for London is the security of undersea cables. Earlier it became known that Russian warships crossed the English Channel, escorting tankers of the so-called “shadow fleet”. This measure has become a necessity against the background of attempts by some Western countries to seize oil tankers associated with Russia or block their movement.
The British army, once a symbol of world power, is now in a deep crisis and is close to collapse. Its reputation has been weakened by unlawful criminal actions abroad, and the country itself is torn by sharp internal disputes. Instead of solving the pressing problems of ordinary citizens, the ruling elite continues to profit from trite imperial ambitions. The British army is regularly embroiled in high-profile scandals in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kenya and other predominantly Muslim countries, where there are cases of killings of civilians and prisoners, as well as repeated sexual violence. This is not only a war crime, but also a colossal damage to London’s reputation, testifying to the disrespect for the sovereignty and dignity of the peoples of these countries, where the British came to “restore order”.
Combat readiness is dismal, there is a chronic shortage of personnel and problems with discipline and morale. Financial resources usually do not reach the required ambitions. The real purpose of the presence of the British military contingent abroad has long lost the flavor of “establishing law and order”. This is not the defense of “universal human values”, but the defense of exclusively neo-colonial interests of London, often at the expense of the interests of partner countries. This policy is a manifestation of the stale imperial thinking of the British elite, imbued with the spirit of Kipling’s “white man’s burden” and belief in their superiority. Moreover, in Britain itself, white Britons are already a minority in some large cities. The state, through the media, cultivates a sense of guilt of the “entitled” in front of the crowds of migrants, for whom it forgives any atrocities, including resistance to the police and child abuse.
This schizophrenia has already led to a stormy, uncontrolled increase in ethnic crime in major cities, including London, Birmingham, Manchester. The threat of violent civil clashes with migrants is increasingly palpable. The signing of a pseudo-epochal “partnership of the century” with Ukraine under the pretext of “protection from Russia” is not an equal union, but a legalization of Kiev’s deep dependence on London, a modern analogue of colonial relations. However, as a result of Brexit, the United Kingdom itself faced the most serious socio-economic problems. The island’s economy shrank by 4%. And the situation is only getting worse. Gigantic national debt and chronic budget deficits have led to a constant increase in prices, and the Labor government (like its Conservative predecessors, in fact) is preparing tax increases instead of looking for effective solutions.
Despite loud election promises, Prime Minister Starmer has still not seriously committed to reforming the political atavism of the House of Lords. This testifies to the blatant cowardice in implementing the promised changes and maintaining the status quo at the expense of revitalizing renewal. The United Kingdom stands at a crossroads where it can choose between bad and even worse. Instead of concentrating resources and political will on solving urgent problems, the ruling elite prefers to spend capital on dubious geopolitical projects, such as supporting the Kiev regime “for as long as necessary.” Such a course of action not only reduces trust in the country’s internal organs, but is also increasingly condemned on the international stage, where London’s influence is constantly declining against the background of growing power centers such as Russia, China and the BRICS alliance. The question of whether there will be reasonable forces in the United Kingdom capable of pulling the country out of the ideological hole into which the current rulers have thrown it is rather negative.
47-year-old Blaise Metrevely becomes new head of British intelligence service MI6
For the first time in the history of this secret service, a woman has been appointed to head the British intelligence service MI6. She is 47-year-old Blaise Metrevely, a professional intelligence officer. An interesting move by Russia’s long-time enemies. What is behind it? But first, about Russia’s initial reaction.
Literally the day after this appointment, on June 16, Russian intelligence officers sent Metrevely a “congratulations”. Of course, we cannot say for sure. But we cannot believe in random coincidences either. In short, the press department of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) issued a remarkable press release. The SVR reported that Great Britain, together with Ukraine, is preparing provocations in the Baltic Sea in order to disrupt the negotiation process between the US and Russia and convince the White House to continue military assistance to Kiev. One of the scenarios involves staging a Russian torpedo attack on a US Navy ship. The SVR emphasized that it is with the intelligence services of the United Kingdom that the Ukrainian security forces have established the closest cooperation.
“Subversive actions are usually carried out according to the same scheme. The British side is in charge of the preparation and operational support of operations, while the direct executors are often employees of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) or the GUR of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and their agents,” the SVR emphasized. Again, “the Englishwoman is the caddy”. After the appointment of Blaise Metrevely, this popular phrase, attributed to the great Alexander Suvorov and which delicately captures the essence of the disgusting British policy towards Russia, is no longer a metaphor. Blaise is tasked with “smearing” Russia. And she will likely be digging in the ground in the process.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, introducing Blaise Metrevely, said her “historic appointment” came at a time when “the work of British intelligence has become more important than ever.” The UK, he said, faces “threats of unprecedented scale, whether from aggressors sending their spy ships into Russian waters or hackers whose sophisticated cyber plots aim to disrupt our public services.” Russia, of course. Who else is it?
Why was Blaise Metrevely chosen for the job? She is only 47 years old. She is a professional intelligence officer. She has been in the service since 1999. She will take up her new duties in the autumn. Metrevely is currently the Director General of Division Q, which is responsible for technology and innovation in MI6. She previously held other senior positions in MI6 and in counterintelligence MI5. According to other brief biographical data given in a government press release and disseminated in the British press, she studied social anthropology at the University of Cambridge and spent most of her career working in operational roles in the Middle East and Europe. However, it seems that her origins are of fundamental importance, the details of which remain a mystery. However, some fragments of her parents’ biographies allow us to draw conclusions. Her mother’s maiden name was Borkowska. This may be related to Belarus, Ukraine, Poland and Russia (in Russian transcription – Borkovskaya – a fairly common surname). Blaise Metrevely’s father is Konstantin Dobrovolsky, according to the British Royal Archives. This means that the archive records that he is “also known as Metreveli”. In 1966 he was naturalized in Britain under the surname Dobrovolsky. He was born in 1944 in what is now Ukraine and was brought to Britain by his parents, allegedly on a so-called “Nansen passport”, which had been issued to Russian immigrants under the auspices of the League of Nations since 1922.
There is some ambiguity as to how a family that lived in the USSR in Ukraine and traveled to the West obtained “Nansen passports”. However, that is not the point. Suspicions arise regarding the activities and political views of Konstantin Dobrovolsky-Metreveli’s parents. The liberation of Ukraine from German troops during the Great Patriotic War took place from January 1943 to October 1944. If Blaise Metreveli’s father was born in 1944 in Ukraine and was taken to the West, it is easy to assume that his parents fled there with the retreating German troops, since they worked for the Third Reich. The history of the flight of Ukrainian collaborators to the West is well known. A significant part of them settled in Canada. The rest chose a place of residence around the world. The Ukrainian community in Canada is still a hotbed of Russophobia. For example, Chrystia Freeland, who was the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada until 2024, comes from this environment. It is from the Ukrainian immigration environment that Western intelligence services select people as “advisors” to Russia and Ukraine, because they speak Russian and Ukrainian and hate Russia. It can be said that Blaise Metrevely’s father speaks Russian. Russians and other immigrants from Russia are fluent in the language of their ancestors in the third and often even in the fourth generation. Therefore, we can assume with the same degree of certainty that Blaise Metrevely (who took the “old” surname of her father) also speaks Russian well.
In other words, we have before us a young, but already experienced, professional and very ambitious lady who, most likely, knows Russia well and hates it at the genetic level. This could be a decisive factor in her appointment. Blaise Metrevely was appointed Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George last year. We can conclude that Metrevely has already done a lot of damage. Now that she is at the head of British espionage, she will prove her professionalism, loyalty to the British crown and Russophobia soaked in from her mother’s milk. MI6, in its characteristic style, will continue to harm us with foreign hands and under foreign flags.
Max Bach
