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Fraud is not simply about losing money and pounds or pennies, it is much more than that - it can really impact someone's emotional wellbeing and confidence and sense of security and their trust in other people."

It is an interesting decision to go for this deployment now given how stretched UK forces are, and given the need to actually focus on NATO and European defence, so there is an elensmt of political risk but presumably that is being matched against the desire to bolster UK influence and access in the region."

I wouldn’t be surprised if we begin to see Starlink capability being replaced in a matter of months. The solution I think Ukraine will eventually develop will be a mixture of capability provided by allies, so things like the European OneWeb constellation...and there are others, and also private-sector satellite communications and other terrestrial communications systems that the Ukrainians may look at again, or afresh. So there won’t be a silver bullet.”