The UK has launched a series of clandestine attacks on Russian interests in a show of retaliation over a string of international transgressions, according to a former national security adviser.
Lord Sedwill, who stepped down from his position as cabinet secretary last month, told Times Radio a “series of discreet
"impose a price greater than one they might have expected"
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