UK would be ready to fight Russia "tonight," top military official says
Britain’s armed forces would be ready to fight Russia “tonight” if Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded another eastern European country, according to a top UK military official.
“If the British Army was asked to fight tonight, it would fight tonight. And I don’t think anybody in this room should be under any illusion that if the Russians invaded eastern Europe tonight, then we would meet them in that fight,” Rob Magowan, deputy chief of the British defense staff, told a parliament defense committee on Thursday.
Remember: Magowan’s comments to the scheduled committee came shortly after reports that Russia had launched a nuclear-capable ballistic missile during a Thursday morning attack on Dnipro, Ukraine.
Later in the day, Putin said in a televised statement that the missile was a new, non-nuclear ballistic missile with medium range.
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