Posted on 06/15/2025 7:05:11 PM PDT by delta7
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 As the previously-unpublished files show, admirers of the operation also included Project Alchemy’s Dominic Morris, who saw an opportunity to “defeat the entire Russian Black Sea Fleet” and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.
The attack on the Moskva appeared to serve as a catalyst for Alchemy’s “Black Sea Operations,” which were already being assembled within a few hours of the news breaking. In a document dated the same day as the ship sank, Morris boasted that the “current situation in Ukraine gives the West an ideal opportunity to degrade Russian military capability by destroying as much Russian equipment as possible,” and went on to outline a series of multi-pronged and phased operations targeting Russia across the Black Sea. “Inflicting a high casualty rate must continue,” because “lots of dead soldiers returning to the mainland will have a big impact on public opinion” in Russia, Alchemy’s Morris declared.
Project Alchemy also proposed a joint UK-Ukrainian intelligence operation in which “female agents” were surreptitiously inserted into Russian navy “admin posts.” In phase one of the operation, Morris proposed “setting up a bar and brothel” in Crimea to “gain intelligence from drunken sailors,” and serve as a “honey trap” for military and intelligence officers. “The agents must be Russian speakers and attractive, able to manipulate, playing to the weakness of the average Russian male,” he stressed.
In the second phase, Morris proposed an “unconventional option” for blowing up Kerch Bridge, in which “a hijacked Russian flagged bulk carrier loaded with fertiliser rigged with explosives” would be parked under the Bridge and detonated. Morris “assessed this will be a significant kinetic event that will be able to blast four – six pillars on the bridge, rendering it unusable for a long period of time.” Given Kerch Bridge “was Putin’s crowning glory after taking Crimea,” he suggested its total destruction had the potential to foment a palace coup in the Kremlin.
The Kerch Bridge’s collapse, and the infiltration of spies into Crimea, would lay foundations for the third phase: the “main offensive” of seizing the peninsula. Alchemy’s previously established “honey traps” could establish covert “safe houses and weapon stores” in advance of the mission, Morris suggested. Next, “a direct attack against Sevastopol using a tanker fully laden with fuel into Strilets Bay.” This would be “in essence a fire ship creating further panic” and “sending a strong signal to the Russian Navy [that] nowhere is safe in the region.”
Finally, Morris advocated that Ukraine pursue a strategy of “containment” by seeking to “disrupt” and “capture/reflag the [Black Sea Fleet.]” The idea, the Alchemy chief explained, was “to target the Black Sea Fleet with the aim of destroying as many ships as possible,” as Moscow’s warships were “trapped with little places to hide” there. He urged the “use of civilian vessels retrofitted” with British-supplied weaponry, and proposed “ambushes using hijacked Russian ships to lure in a warship to be attacked by portable anti-ship missiles.”
While no such operation ever materialized, Sevastopol has been a consistent target of Kiev’s drone and missile blitzes throughout the conflict. In fact, the “Black Sea Operations” memo identified the Nakhimov Naval Academy in the Crimean capital as an ideal target for such attacks. The institution has been repeatedly rocked by Ukrainian strikes during this period. An incendiary strike on Kerch Bridge did come to pass in October 2022 – and as The Grayzone revealed at the time, it was almost certainly the outcome of blueprints prepared by Project Alchemy.
In a secret memo one month later, Alchemy leader Dominic Morris stated approvingly that the “attack on Kerch” had “hurt” the Russians. Noting that a relatively high-ranking Russian politician was personally dispatched to oversee the Bridge’s reconstruction, Morris claimed this underlined the attack’s political significance to the Kremlin, and added: “It is not an easy repair, they need to replace road [sic] in each direction (ie the one that wasn’t hit) and bad weather is slowing them.”
On April 16, just two days after the Moskva went under, Alchemy’s plans had already morphed into a “CONOPS” – military jargon which the US Department of Defense defines as a “statement that clearly and concisely expresses what the joint force commander intends to accomplish and how it will be done using available resources.” The document, which is entitled “Building Ukraine [sic] Maritime Raiding Capability” and closely matches a secret British presentation previously exposed by The Grayzone, describes the Moskva’s sinking as “a significant blow to Russian naval capability” that left the rest of the Black Sea Fleet “vulnerable to missile attack.”
According to Alchemy, the sinking of more ships would “force the Russian navy farther away from the Ukraine coast or into port, opening the potential for the Ukrainian Navy to launch littoral, inshore, coastal and riverine raiding operations.” The cell noted “the exploitable sea area” was “relatively small” – “just 160 nautical miles from Odessa to Sevastopol as an example,” which was “well within the range of small assault crafts.”
Ukrainian marines and naval forces were to be equipped and trained by the British to allow for “ambushing… Russian engineer and Spetsnaz reconnaissance teams” and “harassing Russian forces in hit and run operations from the waterways.” These teams would also be charged with “[taking] out coastal radar stations,” and thus “blinding Russian forces.” As these stations were “likely to be well defended,” such attacks would “have to be well planned and hit at lightning speed to ensure success and escape,” Alchemy wrote, insisting that “agent[s] already inserted into Crimea” from mainland Russia would “provide intelligence for the naval commandos.”…..
Great Britain will be the first NATO nation to get nuked.
Worthless.
For a lot of reasons.
It's hard to believe that this was once the nation where the sun never set on its empire.
And it's going to put a real crimp in any negotiations between Russia and anyone that involve Britain.
I’m be surprised if they didn’t have a plan for this.
We have a plan to invade Canada. It’s what we pay our military to do.
Duh.
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You think they don’t already know about this?
I doubt they have to read FR to learn about reports like this.
It's my guess that sooner rather than later, the globalist/leftist/WEF-loving/Musloid-loving idiots who run the British Government will push Putin to the point where he'll start blowing up sites in the UK.
This supposed leak shows how reckless and feckless the UK government truly is.
Right on!
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.”I see your problem right there.
Every competent general staff of every sizable military on the planet has a zillion such plans tucked away. That’s their job.
100 years ago this headline would have scared the Russians. They’re probably laughing at it today...
“If Putin decides this is a declaration of war by Britain I don’t know who in the world could honestly blame him.”
Something tells me that the people here claiming that this terrorism was strictly done by Ukraine know better, or at least their bosses know better.
“don’t know why we are allies with them. Their intel community is part of the Five Eyes that conspires to deprive US citizens of our rights by doing for our intel community the things our laws are supposed to protect us from.”
That’s a GREAT POINT. They nearly got Skunk Cabbage elected in 2016, and, as it was, they effectively SHACKLED Trump during his first term. Perhaps we should say to the UK what Putin just said to his ‘friend’ Iran - which is “You’re on your own now”.
Yep. Was kind of what I was getting at, but in a very round-about way. I wanted to point out that the Brits aren't the only entity that plans for things like this.
I wouldn’t shed any tears if he did. To be honest, I feel like the Five Eyes nations have declared war against the US, and personally against me. Could be because I suspect they helped kill my husband when I got too close to documenting the whole stinking Obama government for the crimes they committed to get him into office twice.
I watch what’s going on over there and I feel terrible for the people like Tommy Robinson who is having the same kind of thing done to him. He divorced his wife to keep her safe, and stays away from his kids to try to keep them safe as well. The women and girls (and boys too, probably) who are being raped by the illegals they are molly-coddling there are being sold down the river just like we were sold down the river here by the same intel bastards, and just like here, all their peaceful means to make their voices heard are being stolen from them by the same murderous bastards.
The only reason I care about Europe at all at this point is for the sake of those few people who I very much relate to, because I’ve seen what these murderous intel bastards do to innocent people. It’s sort of like bargaining with God to save Sodom and Gomorrah for the sake of 10 righteous people who may live there. Maybe at some point it would be best to do with them as we are doing with Afrikaaners: say you are welcome to come here - adding that the time to get out is now because we are about to abandon our alliance with the tyrants who are abusing their own people.
I pray that you’re able to get them out quickly.
What do they say? Something like “Be friendly to everybody you meet but have a plan to blow them away if needed?” I’m butchering it but that’s the idea.
Thing is, there’s a big difference between having contingency plans and USING THEM ON SOMEBODY WHO’S DONE NOTHING TO HARM YOU. The Brits are getting a lot of Ukrainians killed by using them as human shields for the war that they have literally forced upon Ukraine (by not allowing them to negotiate peace before and after the conflict started, and by pushing to violate their own promise to Russia that Ukraine would not join NATO and would remain neutral.)
To be truthful, I think that our own CIA that is supposed to be doing all kinds of clandestine things all over the world are actually just a bunch of bullies who are just as apt to destroy the USA as they are to do anything clandestine to help us. Because they are allowed to be clandestine they can do whatever they want without public knowledge or any oversight. And I know for a fact that they interfered in domestic politics by putting Obama into office twice through their own illegal tampering with official records and through the use of military operations. The same “color revolution” tactics that they’ve used all over the globe - mostly to put anti-USA tyrants into power all over the globe - have been used in the USA to put anti-USA tyrants into power. Which is why America has become unrecognizeable after Obama fulfilled his promise to “radically transform” the country. Right now we’re in a fight for our lives to save even any semblance of Constitutional governance. And that all comes back to our own bass-ackward CIA and intel community.
I’m sick of it. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We need to be done with all this clandestine crap. It costs way more than it benefits the true America.
‘1984’...a prophesy
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