Warning bell from Britain: Those who seek to attack us beware

London, March 28: As the whole world saw that Russia faced the biggest blow when many nations came together to expel its diplomats, now Prime Minister Theresa May has warned those “who seek to attack us” that Britain will deploy all its capabilities to defeat them.

May, a former interior minister, says in the foreword of the report that Britain has seen attacks in London and Manchester, and the “attempted murder” in Salisbury.

“Crucially what all of these incidents have made clear is that our national security is conditional ... on our ability to mobilize most effectively the full range of our capabilities in concert to respond to the challenges we face,” she wrote, according to excerpts provided by her office.

She said Britain would now not only use the police, security services and army, but also measures ranging “from economic levers, through cutting-edge military resources to our wider diplomatic and cultural influence on the world’s stage”.

The Salisbury attack, which left Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in a critical condition, has made the report even more timely, a senior British official said, especially by underlining the importance of communications and soft power.

Shortly after London blamed Moscow, Russia started spreading different explanations for the attack, “disinformation” designed “to confuse the charge sheet, if you like, against Russia that the prime minister set out quite clearly”, the official said.