Russia ramps up disinformation war on UK

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Former British diplomat Andy Pryce, a fellow of the defence and security think tank Rusi, said analysis showed that state-media conversations about the UK being an adversary “dramatically increased after the Trump administration sat down with the Russian government in Riyadh in February 2025. “If you're an authoritarian government, you usually need a foreign enemy to point to... The UK is reflected as an enemy more.”