Luke Harding

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Today in Focus · Russia threatens UK over supplying drones to Ukraine — The Latest · 18 Aug 2026 podcast
significant you you have to understand that most of the drones launched by Ukraine out of Russia are Ukrainian drones.
So these are sort of supplemental drones which are clearly very effective and from the UK and as you say have obviously infuriated the Kremlin.
Well
I mean there's a sort of flippant answer and a serious answer here.
I mean the flippant answer is who who who know who knows what what they mean by consequences.
And the sort of serious, more analytical answer is that this is a sort of standard Russian state propaganda trope.
That Russia is the victim, that that it's it's war of aggression against Ukraine, biggest war in Europe, by the way, since 1945.
It's a war of choice.
By Putin, but of course, all of his diplomats, both in London and and around the world, uh th they don't really do diplomacy anymore, they do trolling.
So we have to read this as trolling, there will be consequences, uh o of some um unspecified nature.
But but one other really important point, Annie, which is that Russia has been waging
I I would say a kind of multi-level war against the UK for for two decades, on and off.
Certainly since the murder, you'll remember almost 20 years ago of Alexander Levinenko, Russian dissident, poisoned in a London hotel with a cup of radioactive tea.
Incidentally, we've seen hacking, we've seen the bribing of um reform politicians, notably Nathan Gill.
Um, who was convicted, got ten and a half years in jail for for taking money from a a Russian connected spy.
Uh yeah, and so on.
It's been a pretty remorseless campaign.
There's nothing new here.
Uh the Russian Embassy specializes in trolling.
They they they really they really l loathe Britain and and describe us as Anglo Saxe or on state TV, which means sort of perfidious Anglo Saxons.
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