Russia, Iran and China intensifying life-threatening operations in UK, police say
By Michael Holden
London (Reuters) -Russia, Iran and China, in the UK, including attacks and kidnappings, including the increasing number of life -threatening operation, usually guilty and sometimes deployed children as a deputy.
In recent years, the British authorities have repeatedly worried that they have said that there were malignant activity by three states in the UK from traditional espionage and actions to weakening the state, sabotage and assassinations.
These accusations were rejected by Moscow, Beijing and Tehran, who said they were politically motivated.
On Tuesday, two British civil servants, journalists, said that novichok nervous agent’s poisoning of Novichok nervous agent, who said that the Russian couple agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury was carried out in 2017 by Russian spies of London.
Dominic Murphy, who chaired the London’s opposite terrorism commander, said that the width, complexity and volume of hostile operations from Russia, Iran and China grew at a rate that neither their international partners nor any of the intelligence community predicted.
“We see more and more of these three states … He’s conducting threat-life operations in the United Kingdom.” He said.
Vicki Evans, Senior National Coordinator of the United Kingdom Terrorism Police, in most cases, the criminals, often acting for small amounts of cash, were carrying out the work of states.
The proxy was also aged among those who were arrested or under investigation.
“We are concerned that they can find themselves in an online environment in which they encourage or do to do something to do something and do not understand what they are wanted to do.” He said.
At the beginning of this month, three men were sentenced to arson attacks on Ukraine in London, and that the police were ordered by Russia’s Wagner Mercarary Group. Ringleader had previously admitted that Russian President Vladimir Putin had planned to miss a critic.
Last year, British’s domestic spy agency MI5 president, since January 2022, as a threat in Tehran as a threat to British citizens or individuals in Britain to kidnap or kill 20 Iranian -backed parcels, he said.
“We know that they are continuing to add violence on the streets of the United Kingdom, and they rely on the criminal deputies to do so to some extent.” He said.
(Reporting by Michael Holden; Editing by Aidan Lewis)
