Ministers must be honest about Russian threat to UK, says former Foreign Office head
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Critical infrastructure risk is being reframed from abstract cyber to concrete life-safety — banking, energy, and water are now explicitly in scope. Boards running UK-facing assets should be treating Russian-origin cyber activity as a continuity-of-operations problem, not just an IT issue.
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