UK defense chief describes Russia as his country’s ‘number one adversary threat’

UK defense chief describes Russia as his country’s ‘number one adversary threat’

UK Secretary of State for Defense Ben Wallace described Russia as his country’s "number one adversary threat" in an interview to Sunday Telegraph, TASS reports.

"We have tried de-escalation, we have tried methods but at the moment until Russia changes its attitude, it’s quite hard to see where we’re going to go," he said.

Wallace also claimed that Russian warships were increasingly active in the vicinity of UK borders.

"We’re regularly visited by nosy Russian ships, and we are regularly visited now by a number of Russian warships," the UK defense chief said, adding that a a Russian kilo class submarine was detected in the Irish Sea late last year, which the UK had not seen "for a very, very long time.

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