A former head of MI5 has claimed that Britain is informally at war with Russia due to widespread Russian cyber attacks.
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"Britain may be (albeit informally) at war with Russia due to the depth and scope of Moscow's espionage activities against London, including cyber attacks and sabotage."
The above was stated by the former head of the British domestic intelligence agency MI5, Eliza Manningham-Buller, who agreed with the claims of former advisor to US President Donald Trump and co-author of the review of the British defense strategy, Fiona Hill, to the Guardian that Russia is at war with the West.
The former head of MI5 stressed that the situation began to deteriorate with the ground invasion of Ukraine.
Speaking on a podcast by the Speaker of the House of Lords John McFaul, Manningham-Buller echoed Hill's statements: "I think she's right when she says we're already at war with Russia.
"It's a different war, but the hostility, cyberattacks, physical attacks and intelligence activities are widespread," he said.
Six Bulgarians living in the UK were jailed this year for their involvement in a spy network that conducted surveillance of “enemy targets” across Europe, while five men were convicted of taking part in an arson attack ordered by Moscow on a warehouse containing supplies destined for Ukraine.
Pat McFadden, then a minister in the prime minister's office, said last year that Russia had stepped up its cyber attacks on the UK. Hackers have targeted a number of British businesses. While tracing the source of the attacks may take time, many are suspected of originating in Russia.
Several of Britain's Eastern European NATO allies have been affected by recent drone incidents, most notably in Poland, where 19 unarmed Russian drones invaded the country's airspace earlier in September.
As the Guardian reports, at the start of Manningham-Buller's five-year tenure as head of MI5 between 2002 and 2007, there were hopes that Russia under Vladimir Putin would not revert to its Soviet practices and would instead become a potential partner for the West.
Manningham-Buhler met Putin in 2005 when he visited London after the G8 summit in Scotland, a period during which Lord McFaul suggested that the Russian president was trying to put on a “pleasant face” to impress leading Western countries.
Litvinenko, a former Russian FSB spy living in London, fell ill and died in 2006 after being poisoned with radioactive polonium. An investigation conducted a decade later concluded that two Russian agents killed him, likely acting on Putin's orders.
The above was stated by the former head of the British domestic intelligence agency MI5, Eliza Manningham-Buller, who agreed with the claims of former advisor to US President Donald Trump and co-author of the review of the British defense strategy, Fiona Hill, to the Guardian that Russia is at war with the West.
The former head of MI5 stressed that the situation began to deteriorate with the ground invasion of Ukraine.
Speaking on a podcast by the Speaker of the House of Lords John McFaul, Manningham-Buller echoed Hill's statements: "I think she's right when she says we're already at war with Russia.
"It's a different war, but the hostility, cyberattacks, physical attacks and intelligence activities are widespread," he said.
Six Bulgarians living in the UK were jailed this year for their involvement in a spy network that conducted surveillance of “enemy targets” across Europe, while five men were convicted of taking part in an arson attack ordered by Moscow on a warehouse containing supplies destined for Ukraine.
Pat McFadden, then a minister in the prime minister's office, said last year that Russia had stepped up its cyber attacks on the UK. Hackers have targeted a number of British businesses. While tracing the source of the attacks may take time, many are suspected of originating in Russia.
Several of Britain's Eastern European NATO allies have been affected by recent drone incidents, most notably in Poland, where 19 unarmed Russian drones invaded the country's airspace earlier in September.
As the Guardian reports, at the start of Manningham-Buller's five-year tenure as head of MI5 between 2002 and 2007, there were hopes that Russia under Vladimir Putin would not revert to its Soviet practices and would instead become a potential partner for the West.
Manningham-Buhler met Putin in 2005 when he visited London after the G8 summit in Scotland, a period during which Lord McFaul suggested that the Russian president was trying to put on a “pleasant face” to impress leading Western countries.
“I wouldn’t exactly describe him that way,” Manningham-Buller replied. “I didn’t expect that within a year he would be ordering the murder of [Alexander] Litvinenko on the streets of London, but I found him to be a pretty unpleasant person.”
Litvinenko, a former Russian FSB spy living in London, fell ill and died in 2006 after being poisoned with radioactive polonium. An investigation conducted a decade later concluded that two Russian agents killed him, likely acting on Putin's orders.
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