"Fiona Hill may be right in saying we're already at war with Russia. It's a different sort of war, but the hostility, the cyber attacks, the physical attacks, intelligence work is extensive."
"We all hoped that the past history of Russia wouldn't prevail, and that at the end of the Soviet Union, we would have a potential partner. And that was one of the reasons why Putin was with us for the G8 [summit] in 2005. I met him when he came back to London. But actually, we were wrong in that, because Russia is extremely hostile to the West ... I didn't anticipate that within a year [2006] he'd be ordering the murder on London streets of [Alexander] Litvinenko."
The UK faces hybrid warfare from Russia, combining cyber attacks, sabotage operations, disinformation campaigns, espionage and physical attacks on British soil. Vladimir Putin has employed non-conventional tactics against the West that fall short of full-scale invasion but involve sustained hostility across multiple domains. Intelligence activity linked to Russia has included lethal operations, exemplified by the 2006 polonium-210 poisoning of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko in London after meetings with former KGB officers. The pattern of cyber incidents, sabotage and targeted violence signals a persistent, cross-domain confrontation between Russia and the UK.
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