Great Britain's chief of defense calls Russia a critical threat to the country

Carter recalled that when he took over as head of the British General Staff in 2014, the department argued about the source of the threats. 

“Then it seemed that (the threat comes -

) from extremism.

But then in 2018 there was an attack on the Skripal family in Salisbury.

It became quite obvious that Russia poses the most critical threat to our country, ”TASS quoted him as saying.

In October, Carter described Russia as a "serious threat" to Britain.

Earlier, on June 23, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the British Navy destroyer Defender violated the state border and entered the territorial sea near Cape Fiolent.

The Black Sea Fleet, together with the border guards, stopped the violation of the border by the destroyer: the ship was first warned about the use of weapons, and then carried out warning fire.

After that, the Su-24M aircraft dropped its bombs in the direction of the destroyer.

According to Maria Zakharova, spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, the provocation with a British destroyer in the Black Sea was needed in order to reinforce the myth of Russia's unpredictability in the Western information space.