{"id":882182,"date":"2026-04-09T10:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/882182\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:16:16","slug":"uk-defence-secretary-reveals-month-long-russian-submarine-operation-north-of-britain-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/882182\/","title":{"rendered":"UK defence secretary reveals month-long Russian submarine operation north of Britain &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK defence secretary to give Downing Street updatepublished at 10:53 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:53 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A podium at No 10\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/c0ffad97-71be-4845-9096-00cff92a9684.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, UK POOL<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">UK Defence Secretary John Healey is shortly due to give an update on the UK&#8217;s military operations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Downing Street news conference is expected to focus on a Russian threat to the UK, following reports in the Financial Times of military hackers rerouting British internet users&#8217; traffic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The update is not expected to focus on the conflict in the Middle East, but we&#8217;re poised to listen across for any developments. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In its latest operational update on Wednesday, the Ministry of Defence said it welcomed the two-week US-Iran ceasefire as a &#8220;vital step towards stability and security&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We&#8217;ll bring you any key lines as Healey is speaking &#8211; and you can watch live at the top of the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK defence secretary to give Downing Street updatepublished at 10:53 BST 10:53 BST Image source, UK POOL UK&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-882182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116374233988460497","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882182","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=882182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}