According to a Russian media claim, the SAS has moved to the Lviv area in western Ukraine.

Russia is looking into whether sabotage experts from the Special Air Service (SAS) of the United Kingdom have been sent to western Ukraine.

On Saturday, Russia’s top official investigative authority said it was looking into a Russian media story that the SAS had been dispatched to the Lviv area of Western Ukraine.
According to a Russian security source published by the RIA Novosti news agency, some 20 members of the SAS – an elite military squad specialised in special operations, surveillance, and counterterrorism – are working in the nation.

Russia’s Investigative Committee stated in a statement that it will investigate the claim that the SAS had been deployed in “to help the Ukrainian special services in organising sabotage on Ukrainian soil.”

The Russian probe elicited no immediate response from the British Ministry of Defence.

Earlier this year, the UK dispatched military trainers to Ukraine to teach local forces how to use anti-tank weaponry. The United Kingdom said on February 17, a week before Russia’s invasion, that it had withdrawn all soldiers save those required to defend its ambassador.

It was unclear what the Investigative Committee intended to do in the event that the SAS was involved in Ukraine.

Given that Russia has made warnings to the West not to go in the way of its invasion of Ukraine, the deployment of NATO soldiers in Ukraine is crucial.