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Peter Whitewood, Associate Professor of History, York St John University

Moscow has a long history of paranoia about Britain’s support for Russia’s enemies

Relations between London and Moscow reached another peak of tension in August over the UK’s support for Ukraine. The success of Ukraine’s long-range strikes against targets deep inside Russia, with the help of UK-made drones, and the UK’s commitment to supply blueprints to help it manufacture long-range missiles, led the Kremlin to accuse the UK of deliberately escalating the conflict.

Russia’s London embassy promised that the deeper the UK’s involvement in the war “the higher price it will pay”.

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