Russia has denied any role in a series of arson attacks on property linked to Sir Keir Starmer, after three men were charged over the incidents.
Police say that two Ukrainians and a Romanian who have been charged over the incidents, involving two houses and a car linked to the Prime Minister, had conspired with ‘others unknown’.
Senior official sources have disclosed that MI5 is examining potential links between the three men and Vladimir Putin’s regime.
Although no one was injured in the fires, any suggestion that the attacks on a British Prime Minister had been ordered by the Vladimir Putin would represent an extraordinary escalation in tensions between the two countries.
But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has now denied any link to the incidents, calling the accusations ‘false, unsubstantiated’ and ‘ridiculous’.
He went on to say that London accuses Moscow of being responsible for all the bad things that happens in Britain.
The three suspects, Petro Pochynok, 34, Stanislav Carpiuc, 26, and Roman Lavrynovych, 21, have been charged with conspiring to damage a house currently rented out by Sir Keir in Kentish Town, north London, another in nearby Islington where he previously lived, and a car he sold to a neighbour last year.
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