US EditionEx-MI5 Chief Says UK May Already Be at War with Russia
- Baroness Manningham-Buller, who once led MI5, suggested that it could be accurate to view the UK as already engaged in a conflict with Russia, given recent acts of hostility.
- This view follows Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine and ongoing hybrid warfare tactics including cyberattacks, sabotage, and covert operations on UK soil.
- Manningham-Buller supported UK defence advisor Fiona Hill's warning of a new kind of conflict, highlighting Russia's extensive intelligence work and physical attacks.
- She recalled the 2006 poisoning murder of former FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London, ordered within a year of her 2005 meeting with Putin, as evidence of Kremlin hostility.
- These developments imply sustained, multifaceted Russian aggression that challenges UK national security and suggests a state of undeclared war.
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'We're already at war': Ex-MI5 chief warns Putin is already fighting countries
The former head of Britain’s domestic security service, MI5, has come out and warned that the UK is already at war with Russia, just not the kind of war you see in the movies. Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, who was the Director General of MI5 from 2002 to 2007, made it clear on the Lord Speaker’s Corner podcast that the massive increase in hostile operations like cyberattacks and physical sabotage by the Kremlin means the conflict is already …
Ex-MI5 chief admits Britain was 'wrong' about Russia as 'we may already be at war' - Daily Star
Dr Fiona Hill said in June that the UK had got it wrong about Moscow's tactics as far back as 2005, and admitted that due to slip-ups, the UK might already be warring with Russia
The British Sea could already be found in the war with Russia because of the intensity and severity of cyber attacks, satellites and other host activities that Moscow has organized against it, according to an former MI5 chief, reports The Guardian.
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