UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham was warned by security officials that Russia may be planning direct military action against England, according to a report by the Daily Mail cited by The Zioneer. The warning came amid CIA Director John Ratcliffe's extraordinary visit to Moscow on Tuesday, the report said.
According to a Daily Mail report cited by The Zioneer, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham was briefed by security officials in recent days that Russia may carry out "direct military action" against England over his extensive support for Ukraine. The report states that Putin had received assessments that Burnham would be "more moderate" than his predecessor, Keir Starmer, but that "hopes in the Kremlin were dashed" as Burnham strengthened Britain's military alliance with Ukraine. The Russian leadership is said to be "testing British security daily" and may strike through proxy actors.
The warning was conveyed concurrently with an unusual visit by CIA Director John Ratcliffe to Moscow on Tuesday. As The Zioneer reported last week, citing the Wall Street Journal, Ratcliffe had delivered a blunt warning to Putin that US intelligence detected Russian plans for mobilization and limited incursions to test NATO cohesion, telling the Russian leader "we know what you're planning, and you better not do it."
Burnham, who took office in July, has pledged that Britain is "100% with Ukraine" and vowed to honor all commitments to Kyiv. The Daily Mail report is a single-source account and has not been independently corroborated. No specific timeline or nature of the alleged Russian action has been disclosed.
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