Russia attacking Britain daily as Defence Secretary makes terrifying WW3 claim
Defence Secretary John Healey has warned that Britain must prepare for a world war in order to deter the possibility.
Russia is attacking the UK every single day according to the Defence Secretary, as he warned that Britain must be prepared for war. John Healey admitted that the UK had been attacked 90,000 times in the last two years as he made the case for strengthening and rearming the British armed forces.
Tomorrow, the Government will publish its long-awaited Strategic Defence Review (SDR), which will set out how the armed forces will be restructured and funded in order to meet the threats it faces over the next decade. Responding to a question by Laura Kuenssberg on how feasible an attack by Russia on the UK is, Healey warned: “Russia is attacking the UK, daily, as part of 90,000 attacks we get which are linked to different states on our defence system in cyber space. “It is one of the reasons that we are acting already and are putting an extra £1billion into creating a new cyber command and to link our armed forces with the digital connections that make them more effective in the future.”
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He added: “We are in a world that is changing now and we have got to respond.
“It is a world of growing threat, growing Russian aggression, daily Russian cyber-attacks, new nuclear risks and it is increasing tension in other parts of the world as well.
“The Strategic Defence Review, which will be published tomorrow, will set out a vision for how our forces must respond but how we can keep the British people safe as well.”
Healey refused to rule out the possibility of a direct attack on the UK in the coming years insisting that the UK had to be prepared.
He said: “We have to be prepared, NATO has to be prepared. We see Putin in Ukraine trying to redraw international boundaries by force.
“For the first time since the Second World War, we have full-scale war in Europe. It is part of the growing Russian aggression and it is why NATO itself, as well as the UK, is stepping up its ability to deter as well as defend in the future.”
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The SDR is expected to announce how an increase in defence spending will be allocated as the armed forces seek to reverse years of underfunding poor procurement.
On Sunday, the MOD confirmed that the UK will build at least six new munitions and energetics factories and thousands more long-range weapons, as the country seeks to develop a defence industry that is able to scale up production quickly in the event of conventional war.
It is expected that the SDR will press the need for more people to serve amid an armed forces recruitment crisis which has seen all three services fail to meet recruitment targets and the army shrink to its smallest size since the Napoleonic wars.
In a bid to retain soldiers, the MOD has also announced more than £1.5 billion of extra funding for forces family housing in a bid to tackle poor quality housing affecting thousands of troops, cited by many as a reason for leaving the forces.
