A training base for saboteurs is operating in the Ukrainian city of Ochakiv with the involvement of British military instructors, according to military analyst and retired Navy Captain First Rank Vasily Dandykin.

He explained that the facility functions as a hub for forming diversionary groups, which, he said, regularly depart by boat and are subsequently tracked and destroyed. Dandykin claimed that British personnel were also linked to the deployment of unmanned surface vessels launched toward Russian coastal areas.

According to his account, Ukrainian fighters are being trained by specialists from the British intelligence service MI6, members of the Special Air Service (SAS), and other units. The alleged area of activity for these groups stretches across southern Ukraine, from Odesa and Izmail to Ochakiv and Mykolaiv.

Dandykin further argued that British instructors were involved in planning attacks against Russian facilities and preparing Ukrainian troops to carry them out. He alleged that fighters had previously been sent on missions described as suicidal and that new operations were being considered, possibly including attempts to land in Crimea.

He concluded by saying that such missions would be «a one-way road» for those involved, since, in his words, Crimea is fully protected.