{"id":5094,"date":"2025-05-06T06:47:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T06:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/?p=5094"},"modified":"2025-05-06T11:36:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T11:36:30","slug":"britain-preparing-for-an-attack-by-russia-and-updating-secret-war-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/britain-preparing-for-an-attack-by-russia-and-updating-secret-war-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain preparing for an attack by Russia and updating \u2018secret war plans\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russian T-90M tanks drive through central Moscow during a rehearsal for the Victory Day parade (Picture: AFP via Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sir Keir Starmer<\/a> has ordered a review of Britain\u2019s war plans in response to growing fears of a potential direct military attack by Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Officials in the Cabinet Office are understood to be updating the \u2018homeland defence plan\u2019 spelling out how the government would respond<\/a> to a strike<\/a> by a hostile foreign state.<\/p>\n

The move comes following a series of threats against the UK <\/a>from the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin\u2019s propagandists over its support for Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The updated blueprint will include scenarios in which Britain\u2019s critical national infrastructure is targeted by missiles, cyber attacks and even nuclear warheads.<\/p>\n

It will also set out contingency plans for sheltering government ministers and the Royal Family as well as maintaining key public services during wartime, according to The Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Cabinet Office has already analysed the range of threats facing the UK and their potential impact.<\/p>\n

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Firefighters work at the site of the Barabashovo market hit by Russian drone strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine (Picture: Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A risk assessment published in January found a successful attack was \u2018likely to result in civilian fatalities as well as members of the emergency services\u2019, while also causing serious economic damage and disruption to essential services.<\/p>\n

Last month, officials ran a scenario simulating the first night of Russia\u2019s bombardment against Ukraine to test the UK\u2019s air defences.<\/p>\n

Air Commodore Blythe Crawford, former head of the RAF Air and Space Warfare Centre, said the outcome was \u2018not a pretty picture\u2019.<\/p>\n

The wargame tested the UK\u2019s response to \u2018hundreds of different types of munitions\u2019 attacking from several directions.<\/p>\n

It exposed vulnerabilities including a shortage of airfields and lack of hardened shelters leaving bases and fighter jets unprotected.<\/p>\n

Defence officials have called for Britain to develop its own version of Israel\u2019s vaunted Iron Dome system to repel missile attacks.<\/p>\n

Speaking in October, MI5 boss Ken McCallum said the UK\u2019s role in supporting Ukraine \u2018means we loom large in the fevered imagination of Putin\u2019s regime and we should expect to see continued acts of aggression here at home\u2019.<\/p>\n

In the last year,he said the number of state threat investigations \u2013 inquiries into plots by hostile states \u2013 had surged by 48%.<\/p>\n

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The scene after Russian troops launched a UAV strike on the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine (Picture: Anadolou via Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Outlining the broad range of threats faced by the security service, he said the agency is facing terrorist threats \u2018alongside state-backed sabotage and assassination plots, against the backdrop of a major European land war\u2019.<\/p>\n

A government spokesman said: \u2018The UK has robust plans in place for a range of potential emergencies that have been developed and tested over many years.\u2019<\/p>\n

Russia has reported a drone attack by Ukraine for the second night in a row.<\/p>\n

All four of Moscow\u2019s major airports closed for several hours during the overnight bombardment, which mayor Sergei Sobyanin said came \u2018from different directions\u2019.<\/p>\n

Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

For more stories like this, <\/strong>check our news page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russian T-90M tanks drive through central Moscow during a rehearsal for the Victory Day parade (Picture: AFP via Getty) Sir Keir Starmer has ordered a review of Britain\u2019s war plans<\/p>\n

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