The Russian state is behind the misleading phone calls made to two British ministers and an attempted phone call to a third, Prime Minister's spokesman Boris Johnson announced today.
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The British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Home Secretary Priti Patel have said they were both targeted in these attempts at telephone misdirection. Johnson's spokesman said there was also a similar but unsuccessful attempt to deceive Culture Minister Nadine Doris.
"This is standard practice for Russian intelligence operations and misinformation is a tactic that comes straight out of the Kremlin's playbook to try to distract attention from their illegal activities in Ukraine and the human rights violations being committed there," the spokesman added.
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