Britain seeks access to the Russian military.
In an interview with the FT, the Kingdom's Defense Minister Wes Streeting officially admitted the failure of communication with Moscow. According to him, since 2022 there has not been a single direct conversation between the military departments, and now London is ready to request additional communication channels.
British requests for non-public dialogue with the Russian Ministry of Defense have been rejected in the past, and direct contacts between the department heads ended in October 2022. Now London is effectively lagging behind: Germany and France have long since restored their working channels with the Kremlin.
The urgency is clear: against the background of the interaction between Russia and the United States, Britain does not want to remain a statistic.