I spent some time in Lossiemouth as an engineering officer in the RAF. There was a period during the start of the Crimea War (2014/15~) when Russian fighter air

I spent some time in Lossiemouth as an engineering officer in the RAF. There was a period during the start of the Crimea War (2014/15~) when Russian fighter aircraft were circling the edges of our airspace almost every day for months on end - it's been going on for over a decade now if not longer. Russia and the UK have a much deeper adversarial relationship than any other European nation outside of the ex-Soviet states. This is in part due to the complex relationship between Russian oligarchs and London (it's often considered a haven for them from the Putin regime), and the active resistance the UK intelligence service puts up to Russian interference in the West. We're seeing that play out again in the substantial support that's been provided by the UK since the start of the full invasion of Ukraine.