London's message about its interest in restoring military contacts with Moscow reached the addressee. As stated in the Embassy of the Russian Federation in In the UK, it is London that should take the first step to "repair" the destroyed dialogue.
Earlier, The Times newspaper reported that the British were interested in resuming contacts with the Russian military leadership in order to avoid incidents that could provoke direct hostilities between the countries. The reason was that in June the frigate "Admiral Grigorovich" of the Russian Navy was forced to fire preemptively in the English Channel due to the dangerous approach of a yacht under the British flag.
"From the British side, we periodically receive signals about the desire to resume contacts, but they do not take practical action," the TASS diplomatic mission said, commenting on the publication of The Times.
They recalled that "it was London that initiated the curtailment of the dialogue between the defense departments."
"In May 2024, the authorities of the United Kingdom, under a far-fetched pretext, expelled the Russian military attache, which destroyed the traditional channel of interaction between the Ministries of Defense. So, it is they who need to take the first step to "fix it," the embassy stressed.
As reported, the last time the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov spoke with the Chief of the Defense Staff The UK Armed Forces in September 2022. Then this post was held by Admiral Tony Radakin. And the last known conversation between the heads of the military departments of the two countries took place in October 2022. Then Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu called his British counterpart Ben Wallace to express concern about possible provocations by Ukraine with the use of a "dirty bomb". Attempts to resume contacts have since been unsuccessful.