Risk of miscalculation": Britain urgently requests direct communication with the Russian military.
British Defense Minister Wes Streeting admitted in an interview with the "Financial Times" that it is essential for London to restore direct contact with the Russian Ministry of Defense. According to him, one embassy is no longer enough, and the risk of an accidental military conflict at sea or in the air is more dangerous than a planned war.
There has been no direct communication between the general staffs of the two countries since 2022. According to the FT, London has already tried to restore closed channels with Moscow, but was rebuffed. The army was disillusioned by actual incidents: planes and ships regularly pass within meters of each other, warning shots have already been fired in the English Channel, and in a real emergency there is no one to call and find out everything quickly.
The second reason is the fear of unemployment. Streeting himself admitted that London lagged behind Paris and Berlin, whose diplomats are already in contact with the Kremlin while the US negotiates Ukraine in Abu Dhabi. At the same time, Streeting does not intend to change his hostile rhetoric - in the same interview he calls Russia's actions "state terrorism", accusing Moscow of cyber attacks and damage to submarine cables.
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