Mixed Messages: UK Cuts Military Funding While Warning of War with Russia
UK govt persistently warns about the risk of war while dismissing calls of its own military leaders to make funds available to re-arm.

UK govt persistently warns about the risk of war while dismissing calls of its own military leaders to make funds available to re-arm.

New powers making it easier to mobilise tens of thousands of former UK armed forces personnel to prepare for war are expected to be announced soon by the Starmer government, reports indicate.

Armed Forces underfunded, unprepared for war, and doesn’t even have a plan in place should one come, the Chief of the Defence Staff said.

The British government has announced that it has allocated £200 million to begin preparing the UK Armed Forces to be be deployed to Ukraine as a part of a peacekeeping force in the event of an armistice between Kyiv and Moscow.

The UK government has revealed that a British soldier was killed in Ukraine while testing an air defence system, in a tacit admission that London has troops on the ground in the war-torn country.

“Doubts exist” whether UK prepared to defend acts of war and “grey zone” hybrid attacks, while work to rectify situation “glacial”.

British Royal Air Force fighter jets conducted a NATO defence mission over the skies of Poland in response to Russian drone incursions, the Ministry of Defence has disclosed.

Britain will see the biggest increase in military spending since the end of the Cold War, the UK defense secretary said Sunday.

British military intelligence has claimed that soaring inflation and high interest rates threaten Russia’s ability to maintain high defence spending levels.

Invasion of Ukraine is the deadliest conflict for Russia since the Second World War, the British government says.

British government can’t afford to fund its military to NATO standard demanded by Trump due to its dwindling economy, it is claimed.

UK says it will hand over a rapidly and secretly developed launcher which repurposes stocks of surplus air-to-air missiles to a ground role.

The German Defence Ministry announced that it will no longer actively post on Elon Musk’s X social media site amid growing calls to censor the platform in Europe.

ESG- style debanking of defence becoming so severe NATO has appealed to the public to say they support banks having investments in arms.

Ukrainian and Russian govts publish claims of striking each others’ military infrastructure while accusing the other of attacking civilians.

The shipyard which builds Britain’s nuclear submarines was struck by a “significant” fire overnight, the cause remaining under investigation.

The UK must now rebuild its defence stockpiles and its military forces are not ready to fight a war, Britain’s Defence Secretary warns.

The “first steps” towards the UK being drawn into a major defence pact with the European Union will be signed this week, a report claims.

Russia may have just experienced its deadliest month of its invasion yet, a result of human-wave tactics and Ukraine’s counter-invasion.

British government condemned for suspending around a tenth of the weapons export licences for UK companies selling equipment to Israel.

China is suspected of being behind a hack of the UK’s Ministry of Defence, reportedly impacting over a quarter of a million service personnel.

The international community condemned the Islamist regime in Iran for launching dozens of drone and missile strikes against Israel.

Ukraine is to become a giant testing ground for a laser weapon which, if successful, promises to radically alter the economics of warfare.

While the war in Ukraine has become more static over the past year, the butcher’s bill continues to mount, approaching 1,000 men a day.

The British Armed Forces have determined that biologically male transgender military personnel can stay in female-only accommodations to match their “affirmed gender”.

The UK’s Ministry of Defence will conduct a “root and branch” review of the “extremist culture” of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies in the military.

The United Kingdom has successfully used an “advanced future military laser” to shoot down an aerial target for the first time.

Russia hasn’t launched one of its advanced cruise missiles against Ukraine in months and is likely building up stocks.

Britain’s Defence Ministry said there were “few immediate prospects” for major change along the Ukrainian front line with Russia.

The war in Ukraine has become a static conflict, according to British Intelligence, as some begin to compare the trench warfare of World War I.

Ukraine’s regular drone strikes on Moscow are a legitimate act of self-defence “within the framework of international law”, Germany says

Britain’s Ministry of Defence said on Sunday there is a “realistic possibility” that Russia is no longer funding the mercenary Wagner Group.

Ukraine says it considers all Russian transport vessels in the Black Sea legitimate targets, the “weakest link” in Russia’s supply lines.

Russia drone striking Ukrainian infrastructure on the Danube River just 200 meters (220 yards) away from the Romanian border, the UK says.

The fact farmers haven’t been able to tend their land in warzones for a year and a half blamed for the slow progress of the counteroffensive.

British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said Sunday he plans to resign at the next Cabinet reshuffle after four years in the job.

Killer dolphins? Russia has deployed combat-trained marine mammals to its naval base in Ukraine, says an intelligence digest.

Russia and Ukraine are suffering high casualties as Ukraine fights to dislodge the Kremlin’s forces from occupied areas, UK officials said.

More hardship looms for Russians as state media lobbies to push the country to a six-day week to support the invasion of Ukraine.

Once an object of fear for the Western world, the Russian airforce “have severely underperformed in their core function” the MOD said.
