The Future of UK Counterterrorism: A Case for Integrated Violence Prevention

For so long as Russia is successfully procuring the components it needs for its military, and for so long as Russia is successfully selling its oil, the environment remains target-rich.” Keatinge said it was too early to decide whether the sanctions against Rosneft and Lukoil had been effective, because little had been done to enforce secondary sanctions against companies that continued to buy their oil. “A successful sanctions regime relies not only on identifying new targets, but also ensuring implementation against already identified targets,” he said. “Ukraine’s allies need to follow through on implementing existing sanctions and taking action against those that facilitate evasion.”

The alliance should prioritise shows of force that illustrate strength and unity, said Oana Lungescu, a former NATO spokesperson and fellow with London's Royal United Services Institute think tank. In practice, that means rapidly announcing whether Moscow is behind a hybrid attack and running ‘no-notice’ military exercises on the Russian border with Lithuania or Estonia."

Smishing...is a kind of social engineering using a particular kind of technology, in this case SMS messages, to target people's phones...this targeted communication...can happen to everyone [in] every sector of society. It can just happen in different ways sometimes. So what we've seen increasingly, and the Met has been really good in trying to counteract this, is a large quantity of advert-based enticements in these fraud scams."

The move may reflect Labour's preference to recentralise policing to deal with a strained system – suggesting it could be about to enact some radical changes.

Ukraine has the capacity to be an enduring actor in Europe's security landscape but its own export restrictions and complex regulatory frameworks have blocked many of Ukraine's most advanced defence systems from entering European markets.

The breakthrough not only allows the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to consolidate its supply lines - ensuring the ongoing flow of foreign hardware (including long-range loitering munitions) - but helps prop up the appearance of a contiguous RSF 'state', however superficial this proposition actually is.