Russia 'poses danger to UK' if beaten in Ukraine - RAF head
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Russia will be "vindictive" if it loses the Ukraine war and poses a direct threat to the UK, according to Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston, the outgoing head of the Royal Air Force (RAF).
He said this in an interview with The Telegraph, according to Ukrinform.
The Chief of the Air Staff said that Russia's air force, surface navy and submarine force are a threat to Britain and NATO and that this is something "we must focus our minds on."
He warned that the threat will endure or even get worse if Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, is ousted.
"When the Ukraine conflict is over and Ukraine has restored its borders, as it must, we will have a damaged, vindictive, and brutal Russia, whose means of harming us is through air attack, missile attack and subsurface attack," Wigston said.
The RAF has provided intelligence and material support to Ukraine since the launch of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February last year.
