Britain’s War With Russia Has Already Begun

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Become a Member Today and Unlock EXCLUSIVE Videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKfak8fBm_Lhy4eX9UKxEpA/join  The standoff between the United Kingdom and Russia has expanded into an active gray-zone conflict. From UK-supplied jet drones striking deep inside Russian territory to GRU proxy arson, healthcare cyberattacks, and subsea cable reconnaissance off the British coast, London faces escalating hybrid threats. Discover how the UK is accelerating its national "War Book" home defense plans and reinforcing critical infrastructure to prepare for potential peer conflict by 2030.  ⏱️ CHAPTERS: 00:00 - The Escalating Invisible War Between Russia and the United Kingdom 01:24 - UK Bilateral Aid and Long-Term Military Pledges to Kyiv 02:56 - Kremlin Propagandists Recast the UK as "Public Enemy Number One" 05:23 - Ukrainian Strikes with British-Made Nyan Drones Trigger Russian Threats 08:13 - London Transfers SCALP Cruise Missile Blueprints to Ukraine 09:41 - Russian SSD and GRU Cyber-Warfare Campaigns Against British Infrastructure 11:45 - Arson and Sabotage Operations Executed by Russian Proxies 12:37 - Submarine Operations and the Vulnerability of Undersea Cables 14:13 - Economic Toll of Cyberattacks and Infrastructure Disruptions 15:29 - COBR Accelerates UK "Home Defense Program" and War Book Plans  Support us directly as we bring you independent, up-to-date reporting on military news and global conflicts by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheMilitaryShow/join  #militarystrategy #militarydevelopments #militaryanalysis #themilitaryshow  SOURCES: https://pastebin.com/Y39zu6xa

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00:01For years, military analysts have asked the question, where will Russia invade next?

00:06Common answers have historically included the Baltic states and Poland,

00:11with some also suggesting that the Kremlin could look north

00:14and try to take over territories belonging to Finland or Norway.

00:18Few people, however, would have suggested the United Kingdom,

00:21an island nation located more than 1,000 miles from the Russian border,

00:25as the next target in Moscow's sights.

00:27Now, it not only looks like war between Russia and the UK is a very real possibility,

00:33but may in fact have already begun.

00:35The relationship between these two countries has been up and down throughout history.

00:40They allied against Napoleon in the early 19th century,

00:43fought one another during the Crimean Wars several decades later,

00:47became allies again through both world wars, then clash once more during the Cold War.

00:52Relations seemed to be stabilising somewhat during the early 2010s,

00:55but rapidly sailed in 2014 when Russia seized control of Crimea,

01:00triggering the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war.

01:03The UK, like other Western powers, sided with Ukraine and imposed several waves of sanctions

01:08against Russian banks, businesses and political figures.

01:12It went on to become one of Kyiv's strongest supporters.

01:14But before we explain how, if you want to enjoy instant access to exclusive content

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01:25Now, according to data collected by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy,

01:29one of the leading research institutes for global economic affairs,

01:33Britain delivered €22.5 billion or $26.2 billion of bilateral aid to Ukraine between January 24, 2022 and June

01:4330, 2026,

01:45including €15.9 billion of military assistance, €5.15 billion of financial aid and €1.46 billion in humanitarian support.

01:56That places the UK third on the list of the countries that have sent the most aid to Ukraine,

02:01behind Germany in second place and the US in first.

02:03From sending drones and air defence missiles directly to Kyiv, to training Ukrainian military personnel

02:09and signing battlefield technology sharing agreements, the UK has gone above and beyond in its support.

02:16It has also taken on a leading diplomatic role as the war has progressed, setting up the Coalition of the

02:22Willing,

02:22a group of nations dedicated to supporting Ukraine's future security, as well as signing a landmark 100-year partnership with

02:29Kyiv

02:30and being one of the loudest voices condemning Russia's invasion and attempting to hold the Vladimir Putin regime

02:35to account for its reckless and illegal actions.

02:38And while other nations may have eased off slightly on their support for Ukraine,

02:42as the war has continued far longer than anyone initially expected,

02:46the UK's commitment has only seemed to grow stronger with time.

02:50Indeed, Britain has pledged to stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes,

02:53promising a minimum of £3 billion or $4.07 billion of military support through to 2031 and beyond if necessary.

03:03Naturally, Russia has taken a very dim view of Britain's actions.

03:07It added the UK to its list of unfriendly countries in 2022

03:10and has since gone on to portray the island nation as the root cause of all of its problems,

03:15with Russian security service officials calling the country the main instigator of global conflict

03:20and the puppet master of Ukraine's secret services, and many media figures labelling the UK as public enemy number one

03:27in Moscow.

03:28A BBC report into anti-British reporting in Russian media revealed that reports and political news stories talking about the

03:34UK,

03:35often in a negative light, have greatly increased since the invasion began in 2022.

03:40Many pro-Putin political talk shows have condemned Great Britain for its support of Ukraine,

03:45claiming that its actions have only served to prolong the war and cause additional deaths and needless suffering.

03:51Some have even accused London of attempting to destabilise Russia from within through acts of sabotage and funding anti-Kremlin

03:58activists,

03:59and Britain's intelligence agencies are often labeled the masterminds behind Ukrainian attacks on Russian soil,

04:05like the Operation Spiderweb drone strikes of June 2025.

04:09Additionally, former UK Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer have both been the subjects of significantly more airtime on

04:17Russian news and political programs

04:19than Russia's own Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin,

04:22with Johnson accused of derailing early attempts at peace talks between Russia and Ukraine,

04:26and Starmer cast as the villainous leader of Europe's campaign to keep the war going.

04:31What's more, the phrase, Anglicanka Gadit, which originated during the First Crimean War,

04:37and translates to the Englishwoman Does the Dirty, has also seen a surge in usage across Russian newspapers,

04:43telegram channels, and talk shows in recent years.

04:46In short, Russia has become almost obsessed with the United Kingdom,

04:50with politicians like Andrei Gurulilov calling on the country's scientists to develop a biological weapon

04:55that specifically targets those of Anglo-Saxon DNA,

04:59and pro-Putin propagandists like Vladimir Solyov suggesting that Moscow should bomb the British Isles to oblivion.

05:05As John Loff, senior research fellow at the new Eurasian Strategy Centre think-tank puts it,

05:11the Kremlin has recast the UK as public enemy number one,

05:15a shift rooted in long-term strategy and amplified by the Ukraine war.

05:19The system needs an external enemy for public consumption and regime cohesion,

05:23and the Kremlin's desire to be nice to the US, for the moment, leaves the UK a convenient punch bag.

05:29Russia's rage towards Great Britain reached a head in August 2026,

05:33when news reports revealed that Ukraine had officially started using British-made drones

05:38in some of its long-range strikes on Russian territory.

05:41British newspaper The Times spoke to sources with the Ukrainian armed forces,

05:45who confirmed that the jet-powered Neand drone,

05:48which is made by British aerospace and arms company BAE Systems,

05:51as well as another unnamed British drone,

05:54have both been used for strikes on oil refineries near Moscow and targets in other Russian regions.

05:59And Russia didn't take too kindly to that.

06:02The Russian embassy in London issued a strongly worded statement containing a thinly veiled threat.

06:07Reports that the key regime is using British drones to carry out strikes deep inside Russian territory,

06:13confirmed that London is deliberately opting for an escalation of the Ukraine crisis,

06:17while hypocritically professing a desire for peace.

06:21The deeper its involvement in the conflict,

06:23and the greater its support for Kyiv's terrorist machinery,

06:26the higher the price it will pay.

06:28Former Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Fedorov went on to warn the BBC,

06:33that British drone factories could suffer some sort of retaliation from semi-military or unknown forces.

06:39He argued that Vladimir Putin was under increasing pressure to take action against the UK,

06:44which could include cyber attacks or political measures.

06:48Sooner or later, there might not only be verbal,

06:51but maybe some visible reaction from Russia towards the UK.

06:54Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also accused the UK of adding fuel to the fire,

07:00and claimed that the country was becoming a more active participant in the war,

07:03which could in theory be used as a pretext for the Kremlin to attack it.

07:07Former Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin went further,

07:12sharing a list of 23 potential targets that Russia could strike in the United Kingdom,

07:16including military and industrial hubs in locations like Glasgow, Belfast, London, Edinburgh, Sheffield and Bristol.

07:23And Vladimir Solyov, who's no stranger to making extreme statements on Russian state TV,

07:28once again urged the Kremlin to attack Britain without delay.

07:31Give the British three days to learn to breathe underwater, then hit them with Poseidon.

07:36Solyov was referring to the 2M39 Poseidon,

07:40an autonomous nuclear-powered torpedo capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear warheads.

07:45It was one of six new nuclear weapons unveiled by Putin back in 2018,

07:50with the Russian president claiming that one of these weapons had been successfully tested in October 2025.

07:55Little is known about the Poseidon's design or exact technical specifications,

08:00but it's believed to be capable of generating enough force to create a tsunami along an enemy's coastline,

08:06which would present a catastrophic threat to an island country like the United Kingdom.

08:10But despite all these threats and warnings, the UK didn't back down.

08:14New Prime Minister Andy Burnham visited Kyiv to confirm that the UK will provide Ukraine with a classified blueprint

08:21it needs to begin manufacture of the British-French Scalp cruise missile.

08:26This should bolster Ukraine's missile strike capabilities,

08:29allowing it to expand its attacks on protected targets like Russian command posts.

08:34Burnham went on to affirm his country's unwavering support for Ukraine.

08:38This is the UK doing what it's long said it would do,

08:41which is to support Ukraine 100% against this illegal war led by Vladimir Putin.

08:46We're providing support so that Ukraine can defend itself,

08:50and that's been the British position all the way through this conflict.

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08:59We break it down like this every week.

09:01On the surface, it may seem that the Kremlin is merely projecting power

09:06and making empty threats towards the United Kingdom,

09:08without actually taking any definitive action against it.

09:12Dig deeper, however, and there's evidence to prove that

09:15Russia has been waging a silent war against Great Britain for several years already.

09:19It's not a war that involves tanks, bombs or drones,

09:23but is instead oriented around cyber warfare, sabotage operations, espionage

09:28and covert proxy agents operating on behalf of the Kremlin within Britain's borders.

09:33And it's having a serious impact on British infrastructure,

09:36impacting everything from logistics systems to hospitals,

09:39with everyday citizens feeling the effects.

09:42The shadowy entity responsible for this is the Special Activity Service, or SSD,

09:48a specialized clandestine structure that incorporates elements

09:51from Russia's military agency GRU Unit 29155,

09:55and is tasked with carrying out operations against the Western world.

09:59Unit 29155 is well known to UK intelligence,

10:03since it was directly linked to the attempted assassinations of Sergei Skripal,

10:07a former Russian military intelligence officer

10:09who served as a double agent for British intelligence during the 1990s and early 2000s,

10:14and his daughter Yulia in 2018.

10:17Other GR units are also involved with the SSD,

10:20and each brings its own area of expertise to the table.

10:23Some are proficient in cyber operations, for example,

10:26like Unit 26165, otherwise known as Fancy Bear.

10:30Together, these Russian teams have been wreaking havoc on Britain's critical infrastructure

10:35and essential services.

10:36In June 2024, for example,

10:39the London-based healthcare provider Synovis,

10:42which provides pathology services to hospitals around the British capital,

10:46suffered a serious ransomware attack.

10:48Computer systems suddenly became unusable,

10:51reams of patient information were stolen,

10:53and numerous healthcare organizations suffered serious disruption to their services.

10:5711,000 outpatient appointments and elective procedures had to be delayed as a result of the attack,

11:03including 97 cancer treatments,

11:05and organs meant for donations and transplants also had to be hurriedly diverted to other facilities.

11:10The financial damage of the attack was estimated at around £32.7 million,

11:16or $44.3 million,

11:18and the incident also contributed to the death of a patient,

11:21as well as forcing thousands more to wait longer for the care and attention they needed.

11:25After an investigation,

11:27it was discovered that a Russian cyber criminal group was responsible.

11:31In January 2026,

11:33the UK's National Cyber Security Centre, NCSC,

11:36reported that Russian state-aligned hacker groups were regularly targeting British organizations

11:41to disrupt their networks and force their sites offline.

11:45A few months later in April,

11:47the NCSC also revealed that the Fancy Bear Unit had been compromising vulnerable internet routers

11:52across the United Kingdom to manipulate internet traffic and possibly steal people's passwords

11:57and other private information.

11:59But it's not only in the digital realm that Russia's war is being waged.

12:03Moscow has also been hiring Kremlin sympathizers within the UK to commit crimes on its behalf.

12:09Back in March 2024, for example,

12:12a warehouse filled with supplies for Ukraine,

12:14including Starlink satellite equipment and humanitarian aid,

12:17suddenly went up in flames.

12:19It turned out that a couple of British men, Dylan Earle and Jake Reeves,

12:23had been hired by the Russian Wagner mercenary group to orchestrate the attack.

12:27They'd also been instructed to carry out an additional arson attack and even a kidnapping,

12:32but were caught before they could go any further.

12:34Should Russia wish to cause chaos at Britain's drone plants or defense firm headquarters,

12:39it could repeat this tactic,

12:41paying off local criminals to damage warehouses or logistic locations, for example.

12:46And Russia isn't stopping there.

12:48Since the UK is an island country,

12:50it relies enormously on undersea cables that carry 99% of the nation's international telecommunications and data traffic.

12:57There's also underwater energy pipelines that are vital for keeping lights on and homes heated up and down the British

13:03Isles.

13:04Russia understands this and it knows that cutting or damaging those cables and pipelines

13:09would be one of the best ways to plunge the UK into an unprecedented crisis.

13:13In April 2026, the UK defense secretary at the time, John Healy, revealed that Russia had carried out a covert

13:21submarine operation in waters,

13:23not far from the British coastline.

13:25The operation involved in a cooler class submarine, along with two additional deep sea subs,

13:30and fueled fears both in the UK and across the West in general,

13:33that Russia could be plotting to target undersea infrastructure and future hybrid warfare operations.

13:38So, while the UK may not have to deal with Russian drones in its skies or bombs hitting its cities,

13:44it's still having to deal with the consequences of antagonizing one of the most aggressive powers on the planet.

13:49And those consequences come at a serious financial cost.

13:53The British government recently announced additional investment towards strengthening the protections of its subsea cables, for example,

13:59and has committed £100 million towards P-8 submarine hunting aircraft to help the UK detect and deter underwater threats.

14:10It's pledged over £5 billion or $6.8 billion for drones and autonomous systems to deter Russian aggression,

14:17with an extra £600 million or $818 million going into British intelligence services to help them combat growing state threats.

14:25Then there are the financial implications of the many cyber attacks targeting the UK's critical infrastructure

14:31that have been attributed to Russia in recent years.

14:342024 saw close to 85,000 British businesses suffer a significant cyber attack,

14:40costing a grand total of £14.7 billion or $20 billion, or around 0.5% of the UK's entire

14:47annual GDP.

14:48Russia wasn't behind every single one of those attacks, but it was believed to be a major player in many

14:53of them.

14:54And if the Kremlin's hackers were able to pull off a large-scale strike against Britain's hospitals, logistics or transport

15:00infrastructure,

15:01the cost could quickly spiral.

15:03A single week of serious disruption to Britain's train services, for example,

15:07could cost the UK around £1.8 billion or $2.5 billion, according to the UK government.

15:14Millions of travellers and commuters would also suffer the effects, businesses would struggle to operate,

15:19and various parts of the country's economy would have to temporarily shut down until the problem was resolved,

15:24showing how even a single targeted cyber attack can easily result in surprisingly broad consequences for society as a whole.

15:32Fortunately, the UK appears to understand the risks it faces.

15:35It knows that the Kremlin has a rich history of lies, propaganda and empty threats, but it has no intention

15:41of underestimating its opponent.

15:43Indeed, a recent report from The Telegraph revealed that the Cabinet Office has accelerated Home Defence Programme plans

15:49to help the UK prepare for a major nationwide emergency in case Russia strikes one of the country's critical sectors

15:56at some point in the next few years.

15:58It's led by COBRA, a national emergency committee, and includes plans for the War Book,

16:03a classified blueprint for how the UK can transition if and when a crisis or military conflict begins to unfold.

16:09This plan was already being worked on, but reportedly had an original deadline of 2035.

16:14That deadline has now been brought forward to 2030 for at least some parts of the plan, with one source

16:20stating,

16:21We do need to accelerate preparedness in a range of threat areas, which means in the next few years, not

16:26the next decade.

16:28This appears to tie into rising concerns across Europe and the West in general that Russia could launch some sort

16:33of attack on a NATO nation before 2030.

16:36NATO's Secretary-General Mark Reuter and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have both warned that this is a very real possibility,

16:44calling on countries across the alliance to ready themselves for war.

16:47Sir Keir Starmer, a former UK Prime Minister, echoed those warnings, stating that Putin might decide to strike the alliance

16:54as soon as 2030.

16:55The UK needs to be ready by then, and it needs both its military and the general public to understand

17:00the threat that lies ahead.

17:02As such, the British military will be involved in Operation Alberston Shadow in 2027, which will be the largest ever

17:09national home defence exercise run by COBRA.

17:12The general public, meanwhile, are set to be educated about national resilience in the coming months,

17:17with public awareness campaigns oriented around things like stockpiling food, watering candles, just in case disaster strikes.

17:24And so, while it may not be rolling out troops or fighting frontline battles, the UK is in many ways

17:30already at war with Russia,

17:32and it's a war that's likely to get significantly more intense and visible in the months and years to come.

17:37Now, you can learn more about Great Britain's decision to hand over missile blueprints to Ukraine in this video,

17:44which also covers Russia's irate response.

17:47Alternatively, check out this video to find out about another British proposal that could effectively turn Ukraine into a nuclear

17:53power.

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