{"id":478680,"date":"2025-10-06T18:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/478680\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T18:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:36:16","slug":"wargame-day-is-the-uk-ready-for-a-real-russian-attack-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/478680\/","title":{"rendered":"Wargame Day: Is the UK ready for a real Russian attack? | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/sky-news-daily\/id951048357\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\ud83d\udc49 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app \ud83d\udc48<\/a>   <\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s the morning of Monday 6 October 2025 and Russia has launched a missile strike against the UK. That was the scenario of The Wargame &#8211; a gripping five-part Sky News podcast that brought together former government ministers, military chiefs, and top defence experts to explore how the UK might respond to a modern-day crisis. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the real 6 October, we speak to some of the makers of the series to get a sense of whether our leaders are taking the threat of Russia seriously enough. Would the United States come to the UK&#8217;s aid if bombings began on British soil? And what do we need to do to improve our defence capabilities?<\/p>\n<p>Niall Paterson is joined by The Wargame&#8217;s co-creators &#8211; Sky&#8217;s security and defence editor Deborah Haynes, and Rob Johnson, head of Oxford University&#8217;s Changing Character of War Centre &#8211; as well as Keir Giles, a leading expert on the Russian military who portrays the Russian president in the simulation.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to all The Wargame episodes <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4lHtW6x1D6R0E1QmGLkBK1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Producers: Tom Gillespie and Emily Hulme<br \/>Editor: Mike Bovill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udc49 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app \ud83d\udc48 It&#8217;s the morning of Monday 6 October&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[332],"class_list":{"0":"post-478680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115328672368286193","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}