Maass, Anna-Sophie (2024) The Capabilities Expectations Gap—The UK’s Response to Russia’s War against Ukraine. UNSPECIFIED.
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February 24th 2022 marks the beginning of a new dark era in European and international security. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is the latest manifestation of Russia as a threat to both international security and the liberal word order that began with the Russian-Georgian war in August 2008 and continued with Russia’s annexation of Crimea in March 2014. The ongoing war in Ukraine poses a series of security risks that exceed geopolitical security and encompass energy security, food security, and the use of new forms of warfare. The latter have been exemplified, among other things, by Russian cyber-attacks against several institutions in Czechia and the Social Democratic Party in Germany that were carried out at the beginning of May 2024.[1] This is unfortunately not an isolated incidence. Russian hackers carried out a cyber-attack against the European Parliament in November 2022.[2] The hacking followed the European Parliament’s publication of a resolution of 23 November which characterized Russia as a “state sponsor or terrorism” and as a “state that uses means of terrorism.”[3]