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Выступление Терезы Мэй в британском парламенте в понедельник, 26 марта:

Madam Deputy Speaker, as I have made clear before, we have no disagreement with the Russian people who have achieved so much through their country’s great history.
Indeed, our thoughts are with them today – and especially the friends and families of those who died in that awful shopping centre fire in Kemerovo in Siberia.
Neither should we wish to be in a permanent state of perpetual confrontation with Russia.
Many of us looked at a post-Soviet Russia with hope.
We would much rather have in Russia a constructive partner ready to play by the rules.
But while we should continue to keep open this possibility, we must also face the facts. President Putin’s regime is carrying out acts of aggression against our values and interests within Europe and beyond.
The challenge of Russia is one that will endure for years to come.
As a European democracy, the United Kingdom will stand shoulder to shoulder with our allies in the European Union and NATO to face down these threats together.
We will defend our infrastructure, our institutions and our values against attempts to undermine them.
And we will act to protect our national security and to keep our people safe.
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-commons-statement-on-national-security-and-russia-26-march-2018



Суровые слова нашлись и у Джеймса Маттиса, который вчера отвечал на вопросы журналистов:

Q: To go back to Russia, you spoke about what Russia did, but you didn't qualify what they do.
SEC. MATTIS: Attempted murder of a man and his daughter, how's that for starters?
Q: But is it -- no, but is it war -- is the kind of war they are waging against -- against --
SEC. MATTIS: I think it -- it -- they're doing things that they believe are deniable.
They take insignia off soldiers' uniforms and they go into Crimea. They say they have nothing to do with what's going on with the separatists in eastern Ukraine; I'm not sure how they can say that with a straight face. They point out that it can't be proven who had tried to kill the person in Salisbury.
They're doing things they believe are deniable. And so they're trying to break the unity of the Western alliance, NATO and -- and that sort of thing.
It's been pretty clear that they've been inside other people's elections, and that -- go ahead, Barbara.
Q: So I want to follow up on that.
Do you think -- what's your assessment? Everything you just mentioned about what Russia's doing, do you believe Putin is aware? Do you believe he knows? Do you believe he ordered it? What's his role in all of this?
SEC. MATTIS: I won't -- Barbara, in that case I won't speculate.
Certainly he's responsible as the head of state. But I -- you know, that -- yeah, I -- I think we all can draw our own conclusions.
Q: But -- but what you just described is what Gerasimov -- calls -- asymmetrical war. So it's something that they already -- it -- it's a theory they have and they study.
SEC. MATTIS: Yeah, and I leave you to draw that conclusion. I'm -- I prefer just to state the facts.
Go ahead.
Q: You've said -- you said Putin is -- as head of state, is responsible. As head of state.
SEC. MATTIS: (inaudible)
Q: I think I -- right. So, how -- what is your thinking about, then, he pushes, pushes, pushes and there's diplomatic, but what do you do? How do you get to his thinking? How do you get inside his personal decision-making and make him change it --
SEC. MATTIS: I think we have to show where all of these democracies stand together. Notice what is emblematic of each of the countries that's evicting Russian diplomats right now. I notice the one common thread. Some have a queen, some have a president -- they're all democracies. And I think that's the statement about how you get to them.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript-View/Article/1477375/media-availability-with-secretary-mattis-at-the-pentagon/source/GovDelivery/