UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace believed that Russia posed “an immediate and immediate threat to Europe” and emphasized that “the UK must constantly increase the defense budget before it is too late”, noting that “it is clear that the threat of sanctions will not Russian President Vladimir Putin is restrained.

“I am serious when I say that there is a real danger of a wider Russian attack on Europe,” Ben Wallace said in a speech at the Royal United Services Institute in London.

The UK currently allocates around 2.3 percent of GDP to the defense budget, and British media reports say that “the secretary of defense aims to raise this percentage to 2.5 percent by 2028.”

Earlier today, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told reporters en route to Madrid for a NATO summit that “the UK is the third largest country in the world in terms of defense spending”, noting that the UK is the third largest country in the world with in terms of defense spending London will increase its defense budget by almost £24bn since the last public spending review, the biggest increase since the end of the Cold War.

The Conservative Party (the ruling party in the UK) has pledged in its 2019 election program to increase defense spending at a rate that exceeds the annual rate of inflation for five years, but the Johnson government has so far failed to achieve this goal in light of the significant increase in inflation in the country.