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Huffington Post // Politics

Vladimir Putin Is Attacking The UK Every Day, Defence Secretary Warns

Sunday 1st June 2025, 9:35AM


Vladimir Putin is a daily threat to the UK, according to John Healey.Vladimir Putin is attacking the UK on a daily basis, a senior cabinet minister has warned.Defence secretary John Healey said Britain is now operating in “a world of growing Russian aggression” and must respond accordingly.His comments came as the government prepares to publish the Strategic Defence Review (SDR), which will set out plans to boost military spending in the years ahead.He said it would “send a message to Moscow” that the UK has the capability to defend itself from Putin.On BBC1 this morning, Healey was asked by Laura Kuenssberg: “Do you actually expect that Russia is going to attack the UK?”The defence secretary replied: “Russia is attacking the UK daily as part of 90,000 attacks that we get that are linked to different states on our defence system in cyberspace.“It’s one of the reasons that we’re acting already by putting an extra billion into creating a new cyber command and to link our Armed Forces with the digital connections that make them more effective in the future.“We’re in a word that is changing now and we’ve got to respond. It is a world of growing Russian aggression, it’s those daily cyber attacks, new nu

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