Britain may already be at war with Russia, former head of MI5 says | Defence policy

According to a former MI5 president, the depth and intensity of cyber attacks, the UK may be in war with England due to sabotage and other hostile activity organized by Moscow against England.

Eliza Manningham, who led the domestic spy agency twenty years ago, said in a Guardian interview earlier this year that Moscow was in war with the West.

Lady Manningham-buller, the situation, “since the occupation of Ukraine and the Russians have read here since the various things I have read-sabotage, intelligence collection, attacking people and so on.”

I’m talking At Podcast Lord speaker John McFall interviewed, then referred to Hill, who advised Donald Trump as the President of the United States and wrote the British strategic defense review.

“I think it may be right to say that we are already in war with Russia. This is a different war, but hostility, cyber attacks, physical attacks, intelligence work is comprehensive.”

Six Bulgarians, who lived in the UK, were imprisoned because of their role in a spy in the vicinity around Europe this year, and five people were sentenced to a Kundakist attack on a warehouse of Moscow in a warehouse containing materials for Ukraine.

At that time, Minister of Minister Pat McFadden said last year that Russia accelerated cyber attacks against England. Computer pirates targeted a series of British businesses. Although it may take time to identify the source of the attacks, many of them are suspected of coming from Russia.

Many of England’s NATO allies in Eastern Europe were influenced by the latest drone incidents, most importantly, 19 unarmed Russian planes moved to the airspace this month.

In the first part of the MI5 chief of Manningham-buller between 2002 and 2007, he hope that Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, would not return to the Soviet roads and would not be a potential partner for the West.

Manningham-buller met Putin when he came to London after a G8 summit in Scotland, a time when Lord McFall proposed that he was trying to put a “pleasant face için to influence the leading Western nations.

Im I won’t describe it exactly, Man Manningham replied. “I did not expect you to order murder on the streets of London in a year. [Alexander] I thought Litvinenko, but he was a very unpleasant man. “

Litvinenko, a former Russian FSB spy living in London, became ill and slowly died in 2006 after poisoning radioactive polonium. Ten years later, a public investigation concluded that two Russian agents killed him and possibly act according to Putin’s orders.

Manningham-buller criticized the decisions of the US and British governments significantly reduce aid expenditures and argued that China would create a diplomatic opportunity for the poor countries to use.

After leaving the MI5, he said he was affected by the quality of HIV treatment financed by the US in Africa.

Iz You will go to a very primitive hospital with the people in the pallets on the ground, but the AIDS wing, financed by George W Bush, was a different scale. It means that we have left room for your friendly Chinese diplomat to stop and cut all of them, ”he said.

“If we withdraw from the world, they can take action because they have a strong economic base, so I think of a soft power… Whether BBC world service or help, they all contribute significantly to our influence in the world and human importance.”