Extracts from Opposition day debate (Commons) on Strength of the UK’s Armed Forces: Nord Stream 2 - Apr 14
Thursday, 15 April 2021 07:57
Dr Liam Fox (North Somerset) (Con):...Russia’s gangster regime
under Vladimir Putin has poisoned and murdered opponents on its own
territory and overseas, including on UK soil. It carries out a
range of hostile activities, including information warfare and
cyber-attacks aimed at democratic western states. In July, the
United States, Britain and Canada accused a Russian hacking group
linked to Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service of trying to
steal covid-19 vaccine research. So it is...Request free trial
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Somerset) (Con):...Russia’s gangster regime under Vladimir
Putin has poisoned and murdered opponents on its own territory and
overseas, including on UK soil. It carries out a range of hostile
activities, including information warfare and cyber-attacks aimed
at democratic western states. In July, the United States, Britain
and Canada accused a Russian hacking group linked to Russia’s SVR
foreign intelligence service of trying to steal covid-19 vaccine
research. So it is right that we increase investment in our own
cyber-capability. However, cyber-attacks are the tip of the iceberg
in Russia’s persistent attempts to penetrate western security,
institutions and infrastructure, and it is sadly aided and abetted
in some of its strategy by the policy of some of our own allies. I
refer in particular to the German attitude towards the Nord Stream 2 project. That pipeline is
a Russian geopolitical project intended to divide Europe and weaken
European energy security. As President Biden put it, Nord Stream 2 is “a bad idea” for
Germany, for Ukraine, and for our central and eastern European
allies and partners...
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