Lord Sedwill said the UK had sought to exploit Moscow's "vulnerabilities", including through the deployment of its recently-declared offensive cyber-capability. He said the occasions when the Government took such covert action included the 2018 Salisbury poisoning of former Russian intelligence officer, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia, using a Russian-developed Novichok nerve agent. "We expelled the entire Russian intelligence network in the UK. "But we also took a series of other discreet measures, including measures tackling some of the illicit money that flows out of Russia, and covert measures, which obviously I can't talk about as well." The committee said ministers were "playing catch-up" and needed to take "immediate action" to counter Russian actions.

Source: Daily Mirror October 24, 2020 00:38 UTC