{"id":166013,"date":"2025-06-07T21:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T21:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166013\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T21:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T21:50:14","slug":"britain-is-already-at-war-with-russia-and-we-are-in-pretty-big-trouble-admits-defence-expert-in-bombshell-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166013\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain is ALREADY at war with Russia and &#8216;we are in pretty big trouble&#8217; admits defence expert in bombshell warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSSIA is already at war with Britain, an author of the Government\u2019s defence review has warned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/17810886\/who-fiona-hill-putin-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fiona Hill<\/a>, who was the White House\u2019s chief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/where\/russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a> adviser during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s first term, delivered the stark warning of the threat posed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/vladimir-putin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vladimir Putin at a meeting.\" height=\"652\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"EPA\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/epa12157996-russian-president-vladimir-putin-1000676233.jpg\" data-caption=\"An author of the Government\u2019s defence review has warned that Britain is already at war with Russia\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/epa12157996-russian-president-vladimir-putin-1000676233.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4<\/p>\n<p>An author of the Government\u2019s defence review has warned that Britain is already at war with RussiaCredit: EPA<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aftermath of a Russian attack on a building in Kharkiv, Ukraine.\" height=\"960\" width=\"525\" data-credit=\"East2West\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/aftermath-russian-attack-ukraine-kharkiv-1001080699.jpg\" data-caption=\"Kharkiv, in Eastern Ukraine, was blitz by Russian missiles in retaliation for last week's Spider Web attack\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/aftermath-russian-attack-ukraine-kharkiv-1001080699.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4<\/p>\n<p>Kharkiv, in Eastern Ukraine, was blitz by Russian missiles in retaliation for last week&#8217;s Spider Web attackCredit: East2West<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fiona Hill testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee.\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"Getty\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/fiona-hill-senior-fellow-center-1001167789.jpg\" data-caption=\"Fiona Hill, an author of the Government\u2019s defence review\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/fiona-hill-senior-fellow-center-1001167789.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4<\/p>\n<p>Fiona Hill, an author of the Government\u2019s defence reviewCredit: Getty<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cWe are in pretty big trouble. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Russia has hardened as an adversary in ways that we probably hadn\u2019t anticipated.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Ms Hill said Moscow has been \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/34810487\/nuclear-strikes-secret-bunkers-cyber-attacks-britain-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">menacing the UK in various different ways<\/a>\u201d for years, including \u00adpoisonings and assassinations on British soil, \u00adcarrying out cyber attacks and cutting sea cables.<\/p>\n<p>In her grim alert, the Kremlin expert said: \u201cRussia is at war with us.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>And she warned that Britain can no longer rely on US military might to protect itself from enemy states.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Hill co-wrote the Strategic Defence Review, which warned the UK is facing its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/30310800\/cold-war-russia-china-mi6-cia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">biggest threats since the Cold War<\/a> \u2014 and set out plans to urgently build more bombs and guns to arm ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Her comments came as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/35301206\/putin-ukraine-missile-blitz-kharkiv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russian missiles blitzed Kharkiv<\/a>, killing three people and injuring at least 22, including a six-week-old baby and a 14-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>The eastern Ukrainian city was struck by 48 drones, two missiles and five glider bombs as part of a huge, countrywide bombardment by Putin in retaliation for last week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/35303859\/ukraine-spiderweb-drone-attack-putin-new-footage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spider Web attack <\/a>on his nuclear bombers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/sir-keir-starmer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PM Sir Keir Starmer<\/a> used an article in last week\u2019s Sun on Sunday to deliver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/35201013\/keir-starmer-britain-under-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his starkest warning yet<\/a> of the danger of war.<\/p>\n<p>Putting the nation on a war footing, he said Britain must prepare to \u201csight and win\u201d against our enemies.<\/p>\n<p>New footage of Op Spiderweb shows drone blitzing Putin&#8217;s burning aircraft<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Injured man drinking water after being rescued from rubble in Kharkiv, Ukraine.\" height=\"639\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"AFP\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2025-amid-russian-invasion-ukraine-1001079101.jpg\" data-caption=\"A victim of a missile attack in Kharkiv\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2025-amid-russian-invasion-ukraine-1001079101.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4<\/p>\n<p>A victim of a missile attack in KharkivCredit: AFP<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Vlad girl\u2019 peace art<\/p>\n<p>VLADIMIR Putin\u2019s \u201csecret daughter\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/35302287\/putin-daughter-paris-art-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">working at an art gallery<\/a> that hosts anti-war exhibitions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/31982113\/putin-secret-daughter-name-ukraine-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elizaveta Krivonogikh, 22<\/a>, is said to be mixing with dissidents of Putin\u2019s military aggression.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-war Ukrainian and Russian artists have shown their work at the gallery in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Elizaveta is said to be the lovechild of Russian multi-millionaire Svetlana Krivonogikh, 50, and Putin following an affair.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin has dismissed the claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RUSSIA is already at war with Britain, an author of the Government\u2019s defence review has warned. 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