Overview
- Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller told the House of Lords' podcast that Fiona Hill "may be right" to say the UK is already at war with Russia, citing extensive cyber, physical and intelligence operations.
- Her remarks echo Hill’s June warning that poisonings, assassinations, sabotage, cyberattacks and influence operations amount to a sustained campaign by Moscow.
- The National Cyber Security Centre this summer attributed a Microsoft credential‑stealing malware operation to APT28, a group linked to Russia’s GRU, as part of broader espionage activity.
- UK courts earlier this year convicted five men over a Russia‑plotted arson attack on a London warehouse supplying Ukraine, with the Met’s counterterror chief calling it a clear use of proxies.
- Reporting points to Whitehall updating resilience and defence planning, including reviving the Government War Book and focusing on hybrid threats beyond episodic incidents.