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So we have a coalition of the willing for Ukraine, which is UK led with France and Germany
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That is a coalition of countries to provide the security guarantees that will be needed in Ukraine
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if and when we get to a ceasefire. So hugely important work with a lot of military planning
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that's gone into that. And then in the last few months, we've had a coalition, a different
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coalition put together, again UK-led, French-led, so you can see the role that we're playing
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on the globe in relation to this. We have to ask ourselves what our priorities are for our country and that's why I took
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the decision that we would increase defence spending to 2.6 percent and so we've already
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taken that step. That's the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the Cold War, which
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which is why you're already seeing an uptick in our capability, already seeing an uptick in the work that we're going to be asking you to do alongside others
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Two men have been found guilty of conspiring to carry out arson attacks on property
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and a car connected to the Prime Minister. Ukrainian national Roman Lavrinovich and Ukrainian-born Romanian national Stanislav Karpiitch
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were found guilty and convicted by a jury at the Old Bailey Police Stay where you YOU ARE POLICE STAY WHERE YOU ARE POLICE STAY WHERE YOU ARE STAY THERE STAY WHERE YOU ARE
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OKAY. WITH ME UP! SUBJECT HERE! STAND STILL! STAY WHERE YOU ARE FOR ME
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POLICE, WE HAVE A WARRANT TO SEARCH THE PREMISES, OKAY? OKAY, OKAY
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TURN AROUND AND FACE THE COUPBOARD. STAY STILL. Professor Anthony Glees is an intelligence and security expert at the University of Buckingham
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Thank you very much indeed for coming on, Professor. Huge interest, of course, around this case because of who it was targeted at
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What more do we know about the circumstances that led up to it? Well, this is a very serious occurrence, Tom, and I think it's very worrying
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It's great that the cops caught these two people, but they didn't catch all those involved
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and what it shows is that when Sir Ken McCallum, the Director General of MI5, told us a couple of years ago
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that there were Russian intelligence-led operatives in the UK trying to cause mayhem in this country
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he would bang to write, of course you hope he would be. But this is very serious because in my view this wasn an attempt to try to force Starmer to back down from support from Ukraine
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on the grounds that these two people were Ukrainians in one form or another
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and it showed that Ukrainians weren't behind Starmer. I think it was an attempt to cause mayhem on the streets of Britain and to target Zakir Starmer
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the Prime Minister, for goodness sake, in particular. It raises all sorts of other issues
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How did they know that the Toyota had once belonged to Nakia
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Easy to get a number plate checked, but much harder to find out who a previous owner was
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And so lots of questions then about who their handler was. The handler in this case went by the name EL
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directed those two people, offered Russian citizenship in return for other attacks
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The BBC are reporting that the evidence that they have accumulated suggested that this is a young Russian diplomat
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schooled in information warfare by spies and propagandists who is close to the highest levels of power in Moscow
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The Russian embassy has denied that charge. What say you, Anthony? Well I wouldn give a fee for what the Russian embassy says The reason the Russian embassy is interesting is because under the new National Security Act the Russians are obliged to tell the authorities IEMI5 who in their embassy is
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an intelligence officer. So the fact that we don't know who El Money is indicates not only that
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This whole thing was done at one remove from Russian intelligence, and I'm sure it was Russian military intelligence, the GRU, the same people who attacked Sergei Skripal in Salisbury those years ago, but that there is no direct link to any particular Russian
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So what they're doing is advertising on Telegram, looking for people who might be likely recruits, offering them cryptocurrency if they do things
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And it's interesting, too, that one of the people convicted had kind of started working for the Russians by posting anti-Islam posters on mosques in London
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so these were people desperate for money doing anything to serve the interests of the russian
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state it's it's clearly it's a fascinating insight into that world um it's just a world that clearly
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uh came to the prime minister's front door as it were in a way that is absolutely appalling
