Russia will be threat to NATO even without Putin – RAF chief

Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston, the Chief of the Air Staff, warned about this, according to The Daily Telegraph.

Wigston noted that Russia will be a threat to NATO even if it loses the war against Ukraine. According to him, Russia's air force, navy and submarine forces pose a threat to Britain and NATO, and therefore it is necessary to focus on this.

The outgoing head of the RAF noted that the threat will remain or even increase if Vladimir Putin's regime is overthrown.

"Because 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 International Bar Association (IBA) has adopted a resolution calling for the establishment of a special tribunal for the crime of aggression by the Russian Federation.